Beschreibung:
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.
Nikos Nissiotis (1924-1986) was one of the foremost and formative intellectuals of the ecumenical movement in the twentieth century. As professor of philosophy and psychology of religion at the University of Athens, director of the Bossey Institute, and Chairman of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches, he interpreted the Orthodox spiritual tradition for a Western audience and highlighted the role of Christian thought in the modern world.
This collection of his most fundamental and significant articles – some of which have been largely inaccessible until now – includes an introduction by the editors to the ecumenical and theological legacy of this exceptional thinker.
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