Orthodox Constructions of the West.

The category of the ""West"" has played a particularly significant role in the modern Eastern Orthodox imagination. It has functioned as an absolute marker of difference from what is considered to be the essence of Orthodoxy, and, thus, ironically, has become a constitutive aspec...

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Main Author: Demacopoulos, George E.
Other Authors: Papanikolaou, Aristotle
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Series:Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought (FUP)
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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Orthodox Naming of the Other: A Postcolonial Approach; Perceptions and Realities in Orthodox-Catholic Relations Today: Reflections on the Past, Prospects for the Future; Byzantines, Armenians, and Latins: Unleavened Bread and Heresy in the Tenth Century; "Light from the West": Byzantine Readings of Aquinas; From the "Shield of Orthodoxy" to the "Tome of Joy": The Anti-Western Stance of Dositheos II of Jerusalem (1641-1707); The Burdens of Tradition: Orthodox Constructions of the West in Russia (late 19th-early 20th cc.). 
505 8 |a Florovsky's Neopatristic Synthesis and the Future Ways of Orthodox TheologyEastern "Mystical Theology" or Western "Nouvelle Théologie"?: On the Comparative Reception of Dionysius the Areopagite in Lossky and de Lubac; The Image of the West in Contemporary Greek Theology; Christos Yannaras and the Idea of "Dysis"; Religion in the Greek Public Sphere: Debating Europe's Influence; Shaking the Comfortable Conceits of Otherness: Political Science and the Study of "Orthodox Constructions of the West." 
505 8 |a Eastern Orthodox Constructions of "the West" in the Post-Communist Political Discourse: The Cases of the Romanian and Rus sian Orthodox ChurchesPrimacy and Ecclesiology: The State of the Question; (In)Voluntary Ecumenism: Dumitru Staniloae's Interaction with the West as Open Sobornicity; Notes; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. 
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