Nicaea, Pelikan, and the Legitimacy of Doctrinal Development in Orthodoxy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. PART I: NICAEAN THEOLOGIES
5. Under the Shadow of the Samosatene: From Antioch 268 to Nicaea 325 and Beyond 9
6. Christophanic Exegesis in Defense of the Nicaean Faith: Patristic Authors and Scholars of Patristics 22
7. Nicaea in the Dogmatic Order of Late Antiquity 42
8. Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, and the Paradox of Nicaea 52
9. The Theologian, the Historian, and the Holy Spirit: Reflections Around Nicaea 67
10. God with Us: A Contemporary Sophiological Christology 75
11. PART II: HISTORICAL MEMORY
12. The First Council of Nicaea: Golden Standard or Squandered Opportunity? 97
13. Preaching Nicaea in Verse: The Legacy of the Council in the Writings of Jacob of Serugh 117
14. Civic Religion in the Long Roman Empire 137
15. Nicaea’s Digital Afterlives 155
16. PART III: CONCILIARITY
17. The Council of Jerusalem and the Council of Nicaea 177
18. Nature, Will, and Grace: The Council of Nicaea and the Ontological Presuppositions of Conciliarity 191
19. Conciliarity Beyond the Greco-Roman Empire: Thomas Christian Yogams and Lay Participation in Ecclesial Decision Making 208
20. Nicaea, Negative Theology, Democracy 225
21. PART IV: ECUMENICAL IMPLICATIONS
22. A Symbol of the Whole: The Nicene Creed and Dogmatic Minimalism 239
23. Nicaea, Pelikan, and the Legitimacy of Doctrinal Development in Orthodoxy 250
24. Newman, Nicaea, and the Prerogatives of the Past 260
25. Nicaea and the Legacy of Truth: Bounded Virtue and Ascetical Spirituality 281
26. PART V: THE FUTURE OF NICAEA
27. Re-Reception of the Faith of Nicaea Then and Now: Reflections on the Role of Reinterpretation of Theology Through Conciliarity 293
28. The Future of Nicaea 305
29. Nicaea as a Task for the Future 315
30. List of Contributors 329