Personhood in the Byzantine Christian Tradition: Early, Medieval, and Modern Perspectives [Hardcover]

Introduction, Alexis Torrance and Symeon Paschalidis  Section I  Ancient Christian, Early Byzantine  1 Personal relationship as a prerequisite for moral imitation according to the Apostle Paul, Christos Karakolis  2 Emotional scripts and personal moral identity: insights from the Greek Fathers, Paul M. Blowers  3 Personhood in miaphysitism: Severus of Antioch and John Philoponus, Johannes Zachhuber  Section II  Early to Middle Byzantine  4 Hypostasis, person and individual according to St Maximus the Confessor, with reference to the Cappadocians and St John of Damascus, Jean-Claude Larchet  5 Mary, the Mother of God, in dialogue: the drama of personal encounter in the Byzantine liturgical tradition, Mary B. Cunningham  6 Personification in Byzantine hymnography: kontakia and canons, Damaskinos Olkinuora  Section III  Late Byzantine  7 The exemplar of consubstantiality: St. Gregory Palamas hesychast as an expression of a microcosmic approach to personhood, Demetrios Harper  8 Nicholas Cabasilas of Thessaloniki: the historical dimension of the person, Marie-H?l?ne Congourdeau  9 Freedom, necessity and the laws of nature in the thought of Gennadios Scholarios, Matthew C. Briel  Section IV  Modern  10 Flesh and Spirit: divergent Orthodox readings of the iconic body in Byzantium and the twentieth century, Evan Freeman  11 Nikos Nissiotis, the theology of the 60s and personhood: continuity or discontinuity? Nikolaos Asproulis  12 Eastern Cl}