Eastern Orthodox theology

Not that I'm looking for a systematic theology on E.O., which I'm assuming doesn't exist. However, I figure there is/are resources within Logos that can be helpful.

I do have this resource: The Orthodox Way: Revised Edition

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    Hi there, Milkman, have you already skimmed through these base packages?  https://www.logos.com/compare/packages/Orthodox 

    I have two systematic theologies by Eastern Orthodox authors. One follows roughly the classical structure, the other one is a bit more basics and takes a bit more freedom in the categories covered.

    Elements of Faith: An Introduction to Orthodox Theology | Logos Bible Software

    Contents


    Translator’s Introduction
    Prologue
    1. “Positive” Knowledge and Metaphysics

    2. The Problem of God
    a. The religious beginning
    b. The search for truth
    c. The personal relationship
    d. Choice of goal and route

    3. Faith

    4. Apophatic Knowledge
    a. Dogma and heresy
    b. The limits of experience
    c. Apophaticism
    d. Figurative language
    e. Greek philosophy and Christian experience

    5. God as Trinity
    a. The Biblical testimony
    b. The philosophical challenge
    c. The linguistic “flesh” of truth
    d. Essence and hypostasis
    e. The person
    f. The experience of relationship
    g. The revelation of life
    h. The lifegiving principle
    i. Freedom and love

    6. The World
    a. The scientific worldview
    b. The “logical” composition of matter
    c. Natural energies
    d. Natural theory
    e. “Mediator”—“microcosm”
    f. Ascetical apprenticeship
    g. Use of the world

    7. Man
    a. Image
    b. Soul
    c. Rationality—free will—dominion
    d. Person
    e. Scientific language
    f. Ecclesial language
    g. Life after death
    h. The distinction between the sexes
    i. The power of love
    j. The fall
    k. Consequences of the fall: nakedness
    l. Consequences of the fall: guilt
    m. Consequences of the fall: the tragedy of creation
    n. Consequences of the fall: anxiety before death
    o. Consequences of the fall: the “coats of skin”

    8. Jesus Christ
    a. The scandal
    b. Self-emptying
    c. “Without confusion” and “without division”
    d. Perfect God and perfect man
    e. Theotokos
    f. Historical co-ordinates
    g. “Source” and “sources”
    h. Willing death
    i. “Ransom” and “redemption”
    j. The Risen One
    k. The general resurrection
    l. The “eighth day”

    9. The Church
    a. Called—gathered
    b. Paschal meal
    c. Renewal of life
    d. Pentecost
    e. Existential transformation
    f. “Transubstantiation” and “symbol”
    g. Mysteries
    h. The ecclesiastical hierarchy
    i. Synods, primacy and authority
    j. Religious alienation

    10. Orthodoxy
    a. Apophaticism and ritualism
    b. Heresy and catholicity
    c. The criterion of orthodoxy
    d. The Greek contribution
    e. The Western deviation
    f. The historical change
    g. The Westernization of the East
    h. Orthodoxy and the West today

    Index

    St Vladimir’s Seminary Press Orthodox Christianity Series (4 vols.) | Logos Bible Software

    The whole collection is contained in Orthodox Starter. Here's the TOC just of vol. II.

    Table of Contents


    Foreword by His Holiness Patriarch Alexei II
    Preface

    PART ONE
    THE SOURCES OF ORTHODOX DOGMA

    1 Scripture and Tradition
    2 The Holy Scripture in the Orthodox Church
    3 The Contents of the Bible. Biblical Criticism
    4 The Contents and Authority of Tradition.
    The Legacy of the Holy Fathers

    PART TWO
    GOD

    5 The Revelation of a Personal God. Theology and Knowledge of God
    6 God in the Old Testament
    The Name of God and the Glory of God
    The Spirit of God, the Word of God, the Wisdom of God
    Prophecy of the Messiah

    7 God in the New Testament
    The New Testament: A New Revelation of God
    Jesus Christ—God Incarnate
    The Name of Jesus
    The Holy Spirit

    8 God in the Works of the Eastern Church Fathers
    The Incomprehensibility of God
    Unity and Trinity
    The Trinity: Formation of Dogma
    The Names of God
    The Qualities of God. God and Evil. Divine Providence
    The Love of God
    The Essence and Energies of God
    The Divine Light
    The Procession of the Holy Spirit

    PART THREE
    THE WORLD AND MAN

    9 Creation
    10 Angels
    11 The Devil and Demons
    12 Man
    Primordial Man
    Body, Soul, and Mind
    The Fall and Predestination toward Salvation

    PART FOUR
    CHRIST

    13 The Incarnation
    14 Christ: The Second Adam
    15 Two Natures, Two Energies, Two Wills
    16 The Passion and Death of the Savior. The Dogma of the Redemption
    17 The Cross of Christ
    18 The Descent into Hades
    19 The Resurrection of Christ
    20 Salvation as Deification

    PART FIVE
    THE CHURCH

    21 The Unity of the Church. The Body of Christ
    22 The Holiness of the Church. The Bride of Christ
    23 The Conciliarity of the Church
    24 The Apostolicity of the Church. Hierarchy and Clergy
    25 The Veneration of the Saints
    26 The Theotokos

    PART SIX
    ESCHATOLOGY
    27 Death as a Way to Eternity
    28 The Second Coming of Christ
    29 The Universal Resurrection
    30 The Last Judgment
    31 Posthumous Retribution
    32 “New Heaven” and “New Earth”

    Abbreviations
    Bibliography
    Index

    Another one is

    Orthodoxy by Paul Evdokimov

    From the description on Amazon (which is more extensive than the product description page):

    "The appearance in 1965 of Orthodoxy, a masterpiece of synthesis, was a landmark in religious publishing and earned for its author a doctorate of theology from the Institut Saint-Serge in Paris. Paul Evdokimov here circumvents all scholastic theology on the one hand, and the traditional approach of the 'Dogmatic' theologians on the other, to develop an original synthesis of Orthodox theological thinking. Although he constantly quotes the Fathers, he does so creatively, so as not simply to repeat them, but to incarnate their spirit in our own time and for our future. In addition, he enriches Patristic thought by bringing to bear on it the two great movements that have occurred in Eastern Christianity: the theology of the divine energies in the 14th century which enlightened our understanding of the material world and human culture; and the Russian religious philosophy of the first half of the 20th century with its prophetic intuitions, its Pentecostal understanding of the modern world, and its vital eschatology. A theological approach in which the human intelligence progresses by an ascesis of repentance, of the great conversion of the heart, metanoia, is here set forth so as to show, or rather celebrate, the theosis or deification of the whole human person.... An understanding we might call eucharistic, gathering together and clarifying the experience of life in the Church, an understanding inseparable from the golden chain of holiness, including the holiness of intelligence, which the Church venerates in those whom she calls the 'Fathers." (From the Foreword by Olivier Clement, Author of The Roots of Christian Mysticism)

    Contents

    Preface to 1979 Edition

    Editor’s Preface to the English Edition

    Historical Introduction

    1. Introduction
    1. Hellenism
    2. Social Character
    3. The Place of Interpretation
    4. Theandrism, the Principle of Balance
    5. The Awareness of God
    6. Mystical Knowledge
    7. Efficient Cause and Formal Cause
    8. Monasticism
    9. The Experience of Ascesis
    10. Liturgical Theology
    11. Hesychasm
    12. Syntheses
    13. The Sad Parting of the Ways
    14. Slavonic Byzantium

    2. Byzantium after Byzantium
    3. Pro Domo Sua

    Part One: Anthropology

    1. The Eastern Premisses of Patristic Theology
    1. Patristic Theology
    2. The Theological Method of the Fathers
    2. Anthropology
    1. Introduction
    2. The Biblical Account of Human Nature
    3. The Biblical Notion of the Heart
    4. The Human Person
    5. Freedom
    6. The Image of God
    7. The Difference Between Image and Likeness
    3. Beginnings and Ends
    1. The Creation
    2. Nature Before the Fall
    3. The Fall and the Economy of Salvation
    4. The Anthropology of Deification
    Anthropology, Liturgical or Doxological
    5. Asceticism
    1. Synergy
    2. The Ascetical Life
    3. The Passions
    4. The Ascetic Way
    6. Mystical Experience
    1. Theosis and the Holy Spirit
    2. Perpetual Prayer
    3. Restraint and the Mystical State
    4. The Mystic Mountain

    Part Two: Ecclesiology

    1. Refining the Question
    2. The Visible and the Invisible
    3. The Church: Its Origins and Meta-Historical Nature
    4. The Church in God
    5. The Theandric Connection
    6. Institution and Event
    7. The Church, a Sacramental Community
    8. Eucharistic Ecclesiogy
    9. One, Holy
    10. ‘Rock of Offence’ (Matt. 16:17–19)
    11. The Trinitarian Aspect of Ecclesiology
    12. The Doctrine of the Trinity
    13. The Filioque
    14. The Christological Aspect
    15. The Church, the Body of Christ
    16. The Pneumatological Aspect
    17. The Mariological Aspect of the Church
    18. The Cosmic Aspect
    19. The Notes of the Church
    20. The Unity of the Church
    21. The Sanctity of the Church
    22. The Catholicity of the Church
    23. The Conciliar Structure of the Church
    24. The Councils
    25. The Apostolicity of the Church
    26. The Priesthood
    27. The Divine Origin of the Priesthood
    28. The Priesthood of Order and the Royal Priesthood
    29. The Missionary Action of the Church

    Part Three: The Faith of the Church

    1. Doctrine
    1. The Apophatic Aspect of Doctrine
    2. Development of Doctrine
    3. Symbolic Books
    4. The Creed
    2. The Doctrinal Task of the Councils and their Legacy
    3. Canon Law
    4. The Bible
    1. Reading In Christ: The Orthodox a Priori
    2. The Bible and the Tradition
    3. Problems of the Inspiration of the Scriptures
    5. In Dubiis Libertas
    6. Tradition

    Part Four: The Prayer of the Church

    1. The Category of the Sacred: Sacred Time, Sacred Space, the Temple
    1. The Sacred
    2. Sacred Time
    3. Sacred Space
    4. The Construction of the Sacred: The Temple
    2. An Introduction to Icons
    1. The Theology of Glory
    2. The Martyrology of the Icon
    3. The Doctrinal Significance of the 7th Council
    4. The Theology of Expression
    5. The Fate of the Icon in the West
    6. The Theology of Presence
    7. Signs and Symbols
    8. The Icon and the Liturgy
    9. Divine Art
    10. Modern Art and the Present State of the Icon
    11. Interpretation of the Icon of Rublev
    3. The Liturgy
    1. Introduction
    2. The Liturgy, Type of All Prayer
    3. The Content of the Liturgy
    4. The Eternal and the Temporal
    5. The Dramatic Action
    6. The Eucharist
    7. The Miracle of the Eucharist
    8. The Sacrificial Nature of the Eucharist
    9. The Epiclesis
    10. The Liturgy
    4. The Sacraments
    1. Introduction
    2. The Eucharist
    3. Grace
    4. The Mystery of Predestination
    5. The Sacrament of Baptism. Entry into the Church
    6. The Sacrament of Anointing with Chrism
    7. The Sacrament of Confession
    8. The Sacrament of Marriage
    9. The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick

    Part Five: The Eschaton or the Last Things

    1. The Church in the World and the Last Things
    1. The Church and the World
    2. The Holy Spirit in the Last Times
    3. The Theology of History
    4. The Church, the Eschatological Community
    2. Eschatology
    1. The Heavenly Expectation of the Saints
    2. The Parousia
    3. Mysterium Crucis
    3. Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy
    1. The Historical Dimension
    2. The Eschatological Plane
    3. The Importance of Ecumenism Today
    4. An Urgent Task
    5. The Charismatic Dimension of the Church
    6. The Orthodox Presence
    7. Holiness

    Index

    A systematic theology is probably too much to ask of Orthodox thought :-) 

    However, check out Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology by Andrew Louth.

    I'm also hopeful that we will eventually get Orthodox Dogmatic Theology by Michael Pomazansky. Don't let the dry-sounding title fool you--it's anything but and definitely my favorite book on Orthodox theology.

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