This book explores the relationship between being and time -between ontology and history- in the context of both Christian theology and philosophical inquiry. Each chapter tests the limits of this thematic vis-à-vis a variety of sources - ancient, modern and contemporary.
Edited by Andrew T. J. Kaethler and Sotiris Mitralexis - Contributions by Matthew Baker; David W. Fagerberg; Demetrios Harper; Isabel C. Troconis Iribarren; Logan M. Issac; Nikolaos Loudovikos; Giulio Maspero; Daniel S. Robinson; Jared Schumacher; Dionysi
Part I. Rethinking Ontology within History
1. Ontology versus Fideism: Christianity's Accountability to History and Society
Haralambos Ventis
2. Ontology, History and Relation (schesis): Gregory of Nyssa's Epektasis
Giulio Maspero
3. Syn-odical Ontology: Maximus the Confessor's Proposition for Ontology within History and in the Eschaton
Dionysios Skliris
4. The Liturgy behind Liturgies: The Church's Metaphysical Form
David W. Fagerberg
5. The Kantian "Two-images" Problem, Its Lesson for Christian Eschatology, and the Path of Maximian Analogy
Demetrios Harper
Part II. Beyond Being and Time: Eschatological Hermeneutics
6. Zizioulas and Heidegger: "Eschatological Ontology" and Hermeneutics
Matthew Baker
7. What Does "Rising from the Dead" Mean? A Hermeneutics of Resurrection
Maxim Vasiljevi¿
8. Ecstatic or Reciprocal Meaningfulness?: Orthodox Eschatology between Theology, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis
Nikolaos Loudovikos
Part III. Personhood Between Ontology and History
9. The Ontology of the Person - An Outline
Christos Yannaras
10. Berdyaev's Solution to History: Redeeming Persons in Historical Love
Daniel S. Robinson
11. Joseph Ratzinger's Imago Dei Anthropology in the Reconciliation of Ontology and Salvation History
Isabel C. Troconis Iribarren
12. Praying and Presence: Kierkegaard on Despair and the Prolepsis of the Self
Chris Doude Van Trosstwijk
Part IV. Politics Between Being and Time
13. Mapping the Theo-political: Metaphysical Prolegomenon for Political Theology
Jared Schumacher
14. The Eucharist Makes the Church Repent: Eucharistic Ecclesiology and Political Theology Daniel Wright
15. How Realistic Are Christian Politics? A Case for Eschatological Realism
Logan M. Isaac