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Blair Laird
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edited November 20 in Resources Forum

Picked up a new book "The Orthodoxy Reality".. I had these recommendations in the back. Hoping to see some of these on the logos platform. Some may already be on the platform 

"FURTHER READING IN ORTHODOX THEOLOGY


Themes in Eastern Orthodoxy: An Introduction

I. Historical Background

“Common Declaration of John Paul II and Catholicos Karekin I,” December 13, 1996. http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/anc-orient-ch-docs/rc_pc_christuni_doc_19961213_jp-ii-karekin-i_en.html.
Fenwick, John. “Orthodox Churches.” In Encyclopedia of Christianity, edited by John Bowden, 854–64. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Guroian, Vigen. “Fully God and Fully Man—Rome and Armenian Orthodox Settle a War of Words.” National Catholic Register, July 6, 1997.
“Joint Commission on the Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches: First Agreed Statement,” June 20–24, 1989. In Restoring the Unity in Faith: The Orthodox-Oriental Orthodox Dialogue; An Introduction with Texts. Edited by Thomas FitzGerald and Emmanuel Gratsias, 58–62. Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2007.
“Joint Commission on the Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches: Second Agreed Statement,” September 23, 1990. In Restoring the Unity in Faith, 63–68.
McGuckin, John Anthony. The Westminster Handbook to Patristic Theology. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004. (For use as reference throughout.)
Meyendorff, John. Byzantine Theology: Historical Trends and Doctrinal Themes. New York: Fordham University Press, 1976.
Nersoyan, Tiran. “Problems of Consensus in Christology.” In Armenian Church Historical Studies: Matters of Doctrine and Administration, 155–74. New York: St. Vartan Press, 1996.


II. Liturgy and Sacrament

Schmemann, Alexander. For the Life of the World. 2nd ed. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1973.


III. Faith and Spirituality

Ware, Kallistos. The Orthodox Way. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1995.


IV. A Study in the Icon and Its Theology

Antonova, Clemena. “Sample Analysis: An Analysis of Rublev’s Trinity Icon.” In Space, Time, and Presence in the Icon: Seeing the World with the Eyes of God, 157–66. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010.
Bunge, Gabriel. The Rublev Trinity. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2007.
Evdokimov, Paul. “Andrei Rublev’s Icon of the Holy Trinity.” In The Art of the Icon: A Theology of Beauty, 243–57. Renando, CA: Oakwood Publications, 1990.
John of Damascus. Three Treatises on the Divine Images. Translated by Andrew Louth. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2003.


V. Catholicity, Ecumenism, and the Unity of the Church

Benedict XVI. “Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI,” September 24, 2011. Meeting with Representatives of Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches. https://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/speeches/2011/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20110924_orthodox-freiburg.html.
“Common Declaration of Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I.” Salt and Light Media, May 25, 2014. http://saltandlighttv.org/blogfeed/getpost.php? id=56302.
Guroian, Vigen. “The Problem of Papal Primacy.” In The Orthodox Reality, chapter 7. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2018.
John Paul II. Ut Unum Sint (excerpts), May 25, 1995. https://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25051995_ut-unum-sint.html.
“Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill.” Vatican Radio, February 12, 2016. http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2016/02/12/joint_declaration_of_pope_francis_and_patriarch_kirill/1208117.
Meyendorff, John. “The Meaning of Tradition.” In Living Tradition, 13–26. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1978.
———. “Rome and Orthodoxy: Is Authority Still the Issue?” In Living Tradition, 63–79.
Zizioulas, John. “Primacy in the Church: An Orthodox Approach.” In The One and the Many: Studies on God, Man, the Church, and the World Today, 262–73. Alhambra, CA: Sebastian Press, 2010.


VI. Church and World

Guroian, Vigen. “Orthodoxy and American Religion.” In The Orthodox Reality, chapter 5. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2018.
Schmemann, Alexander. Church, World, Mission: Reflections on Orthodoxy in the West. Chaps. 1–4, pp. 7–117. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1979.


Prospects in Eastern Orthodox Theology

I. Orthodoxy and Theology

Bulgakov, Sergius. “Dogma and Dogmatic Theology.” In Tradition Alive: On the Church and the Christian Life in Our Time; Readings from the Eastern Church, edited by Michael Plekon, 67–80. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
Florovsky, Georges. “The Ethos of the Orthodox Church.” The Ecumenical Review 12, no. 2 (1960): 183–98.
Lossky, Vladimir. “Prologue: Faith and Theology.” In Orthodox Theology: An Introduction, 13–25. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1978.
Schmemann, Alexander. “Liturgy and Theology.” In Liturgy and Tradition: Theological Reflections of Alexander Schmemann, edited by Thomas Fisch, 49–68. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1990.


II. God and Creation

Florovsky, Georges. “St. Athanasius’ Concept of Creation.” In Aspects of Church History, 39–62. Vol. 4 of The Collected Works of Georges Florovsky. Belmont, MA: Nordland, 1975.
Lossky, Vladimir. “The Creation.” In Orthodox Theology: An Introduction, 51–78. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2001.
———. “The Two Monotheisms.” In Orthodox Theology, 27–49.
Staniloae, Dumitru. “The Holy Trinity: Structure of Supreme Love.” In Revelation and Knowledge of the Triune God, 245–80. Vol. 1. of Orthodox Dogmatic Theology: The Experience of God. Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1998.
Zizioulas, John. “The Father as Cause: Personhood Generating Otherness.” In Communion and Otherness, 113–54. London: T&T Clark, 2006.


III. The Fall and Sin

Lossky, Vladimir. “Original Sin.” In Orthodox Theology, 79–94.
Staniloae, Dumitru. “The Fall.” In The World: Creation and Deification, 163–89. Vol. 2 of Orthodox Dogmatic Theology: The Experience of God. Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2000.
Zizioulas, John. “Creation and Salvation.” In Lectures in Christian Dogmatics, edited by Douglas H. Knight, 83–100. London: T&T Clark, 2008.


IV. Redemption in Christ

Bulgakov, Sergius. “The Work of Christ: Section B; Redemption.” In The Lamb of God, 342–72. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008.
Guroian, Vigen. “Divine Therapy.” In The Melody of Faith: Theology in an Orthodox Key, 43–64. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.
Lossky, Vladimir. “Christological Dogma.” In Orthodox Theology, 95–118.
———. “Postscript: Image and Likeness.” In Orthodox Theology, 119–37.
Zizioulas, John. “ ‘Created’ and ‘Uncreated’: The Existential Significance of Chalcedonian Christology.” In Communion and Otherness, 250–85.


V. Theological Anthropology

Clément, Olivier. “Persons in Communion.” In On Human Being, 43–54. London: New City Press, 2000.
Evdokimov, Paul. Orthodoxy. Pt. 1, Chaps. 1 and 2, pp. 55–92. Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 1979.
Lossky, Vladimir. “Catholic Consciousness: Anthropological Implications of the Dogma of the Church.” In In the Image and Likeness of God, 183–94. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1974.
Zizioulas, John. “On Being a Person.” In Communion and Otherness, 99–112.


VI. Eschatology

Evdokimov, Paul. “Part Five: The Eschaton or the Last Things.” In Orthodoxy, 309–40.
Guroian, Vigen. “The Luminous Moment of the Apocalypse.” In Melody of Faith, 25–42.
Lossky, Vladimir. “Dominion and Kingship: An Eschatological Study.” In In the Image and Likeness of God, 211–27.
Schmemann, Alexander. “Liturgy and Eschatology.” In Liturgy and Tradition, 89–100.


VII. Eucharist and Liturgy

Schmemann, Alexander. The Eucharist. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1988.


VIII. Liturgy and Ethics

Guroian, Vigen. Incarnate Love. 2nd ed. Chaps. 3–6. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.

These four chapters constitute the contents of part 2 of Incarnate Love, “Liturgical Ethics.” They are “Liturgy and the Lost Eschatological Vision of Christian Ethics,” “The Gift of the Holy Spirit,” “Seeing Worship as Ethics,” and “An Ethic of Marriage and Family.”

Yannaras, Christos. The Freedom of Morality. Chaps. 3–7, 9. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1984.

These short chapters are too numerous to list. They cover such subjects as Gospel ethics and the ascetical and liturgical sources of Orthodox ethics.


IX. The Church and Political Order

Guroian, Vigen. “Godless Theosis: A Review of the Mystical as Political.” First Things, April 2014. https://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/04/godless-theosis.
———. “Orthodoxy and the American Order.” In Incarnate Love, 163–88.
———. “The Problem of a Social Ethic.” In Incarnate Love, 141–62.
———. “The Struggle for the Soul of the Church: American Reflections.” In Ethics after Christendom: Toward an Ecclesial Christian Ethic, 83–101. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.
Harakas, Stanley. “Orthodox State-Church Theory and American Democracy.” Greek Orthodox Theological Review 21 (1975): 285–307.
Papanikolaou, Aristotle. “Divine-Human Communion and the Common Good.” In The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy, 131–62. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012.
———. “Eucharist or Democracy?” In The Mystical as Political, 55–86.


X. God and Mystery

Hart, David Bentley. “ ‘God’ Is Not a Proper Name.” In The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss, 13–45. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
Sherrard, Philip. “The Presence of Evil.” In Christianity: Lineaments of a Sacred Tradition, 159–79. Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1998.
Ware, Kallistos. “Dare We Hope for the Salvation of All?” In The Inner Kingdom, 193–216. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2000.


XI. Beauty: Theological Aesthetics

Clément, Olivier. “The Third Beauty.” In On Human Being, 126–44.
Evdokimov, Paul. The Art of the Icon: A Theology of Beauty. Renando, CA: Oakwood Publications, 1990. Chapters 1, 2, and 5.
Hart, David Bentley. “Introduction: III. Beauty.” In The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth, 15–28. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.


XII. The Orthodox Christian Vision

Chryssavgis, John. “The World of the Icon.” In Beyond the Shattered Image: Insights into and Orthodox Christian, 121–40. Minneapolis, MN: Light and Life, 2007.
Schmemann, Alexander. “Appendix 1: ‘Worship in a Secular Age.’ ” In The Life of the World, 117–34. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1973.
———. “Appendix 2: ‘Sacrament and Symbol.’ ” In The Life of the World, 135–50.
Sherrard, Philip. “Christianity and the Desecration of the Cosmos.” In Christianity: Lineaments of a Sacred Tradition, 200–231.


XIII. Mary and Holiness

Bulgakov, Sergius. “The Glorification of the Mother of God.” In The Burning Bush: On the Orthodox Veneration of the Mother of God, 65–116. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009.
Evdokimov, Paul. “Theotokos: Archetype of the Feminine.” In Woman and the Salvation of the World, 211–25. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1994.
Guroian, Vigen. “Mother of God, Mother of Holiness.” In Melody of Faith, 65–92.
Lossky, Vladimir. “Panagia.” In In the Image and Likeness of God, 195–210.


XIV. Women and the Priesthood

Behr-Sigel, Elisabeth. “The Ordination of Women: Also a Question for the Orthodox Churches.” In The Ordination of Women in the Orthodox Church, edited by Elisabeth Behr-Sigel and Kallistos Ware, 11–48. Geneva: WCC, 2000.
Harrison, Nonna Verna. “Orthodox Arguments Against the Ordination of Women as Priests.” In Women and the Priesthood, edited by Thomas Hopko, 165–87. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1999.
Hopko, Thomas. “Presbyter/Bishop: A Masculine Ministry.” In Women and the Priesthood, 139–64."


Guroian, Vigen. The Orthodoxy Reality: Culture, Theology, and Ethics in the Modern World. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic: A Division of Baker Publishing Group, 2018. Print.