An introduction to and anthology of key articles by Nikos Nissiotis, a trailblazing and influential theologian of Greece and the ecumenical movement in the twentieth century, the book presents fresh and intuitive insights and interpretations of Christian dogma from an Eastern Orthodox theological and spiritual perspective.
Nikolaos Asproulis is deputy director of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies and lecturer in the Studies in Eastern Orthodox Theology Postgraduate Program at Hellenic Open University.
John Chryssavgis is archdeacon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and theological advisor to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on environmental issues.
Foreword by John Zizioulas, Metropolitan of Pergamon
Acknowledgments
Introduction by John Chryssavgis
Part 1: Prelude to Theology
1. Theology as Science and Doxology
2. Reflections on the Renewal of Systematic Theology
Part 2: Scripture and Tradition
3. The Unity of Scripture and Tradition
4. Corporate Worship and Individual Prayer
Part 3: Trinity and Creation
5. The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity in Church Life and Theology
6. Pneumatological Christology as a Presupposition of Ecclesiology
7. Secular and Christian Images of the Human Person
8. Pneumatological Christology: Nature, Ecology, and Integral Humanity
Part 4: Church and Society
9. Our History: Limitation or Creative Power?
10. The Unity of Grace
Part 5: Ecumenism and Mission
11. The Ecclesiological Foundation of Mission
12. The Witness and the Service of Orthodoxy to the Undivided Church
Part 6: Theology and Education
13. Toward an Ecumenical Theological Education
14. Toward an Orthodox Theological Education
Bibliography
About the Editors