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Anna Komnene’s Alexiad: Legacy from the Good Daughter (Kale Thugater)

  • V. K. Mccarty
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Table of Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Preface xi
  5. Foreword: The Mystery of Marriage: An Orthodox Reflection xv
  6. The Sacrament of Love: Paul Evdokimov’s Vision of Marriage, Love and Vocation 1
  7. Out of Dreams and Angels: Love, Marriage, and Family in the New Testament 15
  8. The Sacrament of Marriage and Union with God 31
  9. Marriage And Family: Traditional Values – Modern Realities 45
  10. Sexual Healing: Desire and Pleasure in the Thought of Sts. Augustine of Hippo and Gregory of Nyssa 61
  11. Uncovering Desire: Explorations in Eros, Aggression and the Question of Theosis in Marriage 79
  12. Contextuality and Normality: Orthodox Visions of Human Sexuality and Marriage 91
  13. Marriage and the Eucharist: From Unity to Schizophrenia – the Positive Theology of Marriage and its Distortion From an Eastern Orthodox Point of View 105
  14. Imaging the True Family in St. Gregory Nazianzen’s Oration 14 127
  15. Chrysostom’s Pedagogy of Christian Fatherhood: Reorienting the Christian Family in a Non-Christian Society 135
  16. What Makes a Society? An Orthodox Perspective on Asceticism, Marriage, the Family, and Society 155
  17. Anna Komnene’s Alexiad: Legacy from the Good Daughter (Kale Thugater) 169
  18. ‘Set Ye In Order Charity In Me’: Origen’s Writings on The Song of Songs 185
  19. Philanthropia as God’s Loving-Kindness: Origen of Alexandria and His Theology of Love 201
  20. The Reflexivity of Love in Fakhruddin ‘Iraqi’s Divine Flashes and St. Symeon the New Theologian’s Hymns of Divine Eros 223
  21. ‘The Time Has Come: The Why and the How of Bringing Change to the Postpartum Rites of the Orthodox Church’ 245
  22. Psalms 112:5–9 and Alternative Family Arrangements 253
  23. Turning Toward as a Pastoral Theology of Marriage 257
  24. Caregiving as an Expression of Familial Love 273
  25. Toward a Better Understanding of the Clergy Couple 287
  26. ‘The Beginning of Wisdom is to Fear the Lord, And She was Joined with the Faithful in the Womb.’ WSir 1:12 The Theology of Children, An Insight from the Old and the New Testaments 295
  27. A Life of Ideal Beauty: St. Gregory of Nyssa and the Life of Macrina 303
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