(In)Voluntary Ecumenism: Dumitru Staniloae’s Interaction with the West as Open Sobornicity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Orthodox Naming of the Other: A Postcolonial Approach 1
5. Perceptions and Realities in Orthodox- Catholic Relations Today: Reflections on the Past, Prospects for the Future 23
6. Byzantines, Armenians, and Latins: Unleavened Bread and Heresy in the Tenth Century Byzantines, Armenians, and Latins: Unleavened Bread and Heresy in the Tenth Century 45
7. “Light from the West”: Byzantine Readings of Aquinas 58
8. From the “Shield of Orthodoxy” to the “Tome of Joy”: The Anti- Western Stance of Dositheos II of Jerusalem (1641– 1707) 71
9. The Burdens of Tradition: Orthodox Constructions of the West in Russia (late 19th– early 20th cc.) 83
10. Florovsky’s Neopatristic Synthesis and the Future Ways of Orthodox Theology 102
11. Eastern “Mystical Theology” or Western “Nouvelle Théologie”?: On the Comparative Reception of Dionysius the Areopagite in Lossky and de Lubac 125
12. The Image of the West in Contemporary Greek Theology 142
13. Christos Yannaras and the Idea of “Dysis” 161
14. Religion in the Greek Public Sphere: Debating Europe’s Influence 181
15. Shaking the Comfortable Conceits of Otherness: Political Science and the Study of “Orthodox Constructions of the West” 193
16. Eastern Orthodox Constructions of “the West” in the Post- Communist Political Discourse: The Cases of the Romanian and RussianOrthodox Churches 211
17. Primacy and Ecclesiology: The State of the Question 229
18. (In)Voluntary Ecumenism: Dumitru Staniloae’s Interaction with the West as Open Sobornicity 240
19. Notes 255
20. Contributors 357
21. Index 361