Aldea Leonard - A celebration of living theology : a Festschrift in honour of Andrew Louth

A Celebration of Living Theology

A Celebration of Living Theology

A Festschrift in Honour of Andrew Louth

Edited by

Justin A. Mihoc

and

Leonard Aldea

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First published 2014

Justin A. Mihoc, Leonard Aldea, and contributors, 2014

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Contents

Antoine Arjakovsky

Dr Antoine Arjakovsky teaches at the Ukrainian Catholic University, where he is the founder director of the Institute of Ecumenical Studies in Lviv; he is also research director at the Collge des Bernardins, France. Among his most notable publications are The Way. Religious Thinkers of the Russian Emigration in Paris and Their Journal, 19251940 (University of Notre Dame, 2013) and QuEst-Ce Que LOrthodoxie? (Gallimard, 2013).

Lewis Ayres

Prof Lewis Ayres is professor of catholic and historical theology at Durham University. Between 2009 and 2012 he served as the inaugural holder of the Bede Chair of Catholic Theology at Durham. He has taught in the United Kingdom, in Ireland at Trinity College Dublin and in the United States at Duke University and Emory University. His publications include Nicaea and Its Legacy: An Approach to Fourth Century Trinitarian Theology (Oxford University Press, 2004/06), and Augustine and the Trinity (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Krastu Banev

Dr Krastu Banev is lecturer in Greek patristics in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, United Kingdom. His research interests include classical rhetorical theory, the Byzantine homiletic tradition, patristic anthropology and modern Orthodox theology.

Jane Baun

The Rev Dr Jane Baun is university research lecturer in eastern church history at Oxford University, Faculty of Theology and Religion her publications include Tales from Another Byzantium: Celestial Journey and Local Community in the Medieval Greek Apocrypha (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and numerous articles exploring the interface between official and unofficial belief in medieval Orthodox religious culture.

John Behr

Father John Behr is the dean of St Vladimirs Seminary and professor of patristics; he also teaches at Fordham University, where he is the distinguished lecturer in patristics. Among his recent publications are The Case Against Diodore and Theodore: Texts and their Contexts (Oxford University Press, 2011), Irenaeus of Lyons: Identifying Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2013), and Becoming Human: Meditations of Christian Anthropology in Word and Image (St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 2013).

Augustine Casiday

At present, Dr Augustine Casiday is lecturer in Greek at Cardiff University. His publications include Reconstructing the Theology of Evagrius Ponticus Beyond Heresy (Cambridge University Press, 2013), The Trinity and Incarnate Word (The Priory Institute, 2008), and Tradition and Theology in St John Cassian (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Mary B. Cunningham

Dr Mary B. Cunningham is lecturer in historical theology, University of Nottingham. Her most recent publications include The Place of the Jesus Prayer in the Philokalia, in Bingaman, Brock and Nassif, Bradley eds., (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 195202; Mary the Theotokos (Birth-giver of God), in Casiday, Augustine, ed., The Orthodox Christian World (Routledge, 2012), pp. 189200; Brubaker, L. and Cunningham, M. B., eds., The cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium: texts and images (Ashgate, 2011). Together with Elizabeth Theokritoff, Dr Cunningham is also the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Orthodox Christian Theology (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Paul L. Gavrilyuk

Dr Paul L. Gavrilyuk holds the Aquinas chair in theology and philosophy, Theology Department, University of St Thomas, St Paul, Minnesota. His publications include The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), Histoire du catchumnat dans lglise ancienne [A History of the Catechumenate in the Early Church] (Paris: Le Cerf, 2007), Georges Florovsky and the Russian Religious Renaissance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), and The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity, co-edited with Sarah Coakley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Thomas Graumann

Dr Thomas Graumann is reader in ancient Christian history and patristic studies, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University. His publications include Christus interpres. Die Einheit von Auslegung und Verkndigung in der Lukaserklrung des Ambrosius von Mailand (Patristische Texte und Studien, 41), Berlin/New York (de Gruyter), 1994; Die Kirche der Vter. Vtertheologie und Vterbeweis in den Kirchen des Ostens bis zum Konzil von Ephesus (431) (Beitrge zur Historischen Theologie, 118), Tbingen (Mohr Siebeck), 2002.

Cyril Hovorun

Dr Cyril Hovorun is currently a research fellow at Yale University, Divinity School. In 2008, he published Will, Action and Freedom. Christological Controversies in the Seventh Century (Brill).

John Milbank

John Milbank is professor in religion, politics and ethics, University of Nottingham. Among his most recent publications are Beyond Secular Order: The Representation of Being and the Representation of the People (Wiley-Blackwell, In Press) and Against Human Rights: Liberty in the Western Tradition, The Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 1(1), 2012, pp. 20334.

Kallistos Ware

From 1966 to 2001, Kallistos Ware was Spalding lecturer of eastern orthodox studies at Oxford University. In 2007, he became the metropolitan of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Great Britain. His publications include Orthodox Theology in the Twenty-First Century (World Council of Churches, 2012), The Orthodox Church (Penguin, 2nd edn, 1993), and The Orthodox Way (St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 1982). He is also among the editors of Faber and Fabers English translation of The Philokalia.

Justin A. Mihoc is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University. He has published articles on patristic and biblical studies and is editor of the Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies (www.rbecs.org).