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Personhood in the Byzantine Christian Tradition Bringing together international scholars from across a range of linked disciplines to examine the concept of the person in the Greek Christian East, Personhood in the Byzantine Christian Tradition stretches in its scope from the New Testament to contemporary debates surrounding personhood in Eastern Orthodoxy. Attention is paid to a number of pertinent areas that have not hitherto received the scholarly attention they deserve, such as Byzantine hymnography and iconology, the work of early miaphysite thinkers, and the relevance of late Byzantine figures to the discussion. Similarly, certain long-standing debates surrounding the question are revisited or reframed, whether regarding the concept of the person in Maximus the Confessor, or with contributions that bring patristic and modern Orthodox theology into dialogue with a variety of contemporary currents in philosophy, moral psychology, and political science. In opening up new avenues of inquiry, or revisiting old avenues in new ways, this volume brings forward an important and ongoing discussion regarding concepts of personhood in the Byzantine Christian tradition and beyond, and provides a key stimulus for further work in this field. Alexis Torrance is Archbishop Demetrios College Chair of Byzantine Theology and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Theology and the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. Symeon Paschalidis is Professor of Patristics and Hagiography in the Faculty of Theology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Director of the Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies in Thessaloniki. Personhood in the Byzantine Christian Tradition Early, Medieval, and Modern Perspectives Edited by Alexis Torrance and Symeon Paschalidis First published 2018 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2018 selection and editorial matter, Alexis Torrance and Symeon Paschalidis; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Alexis Torrance and Symeon Paschalidis to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Torrance, Alexis, 1985– editor. | Paschalidis, Symeon, editor. Title: Personhood in the Byzantine Christian tradition : early, medieval, and modern perspectives / edited by Alexis Torrance and Symeon Paschalidis. Description: New York : Routledge, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017060120 | ISBN 9781472472786 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315600185 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Theological anthropology—Christianity. | Human beings. | Orthodox Eastern Church—Doctrine. Classification: LCC BX342.9.M35 P477 2018 | DDC 233/.50882819—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017060120 ISBN: 978-1-4724-7278-6 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-60018-5 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents ContentsContents Acknowledgements viii Contributors ix Introduction 1 ALEXIS TORRANCE AND SYMEON PASCHALIDIS SECTION I Ancient Christian, early Byzantine 7 1 Personal relationship as a prerequisite for moral imitation according to the Apostle Paul 9 CHRISTOS KARAKOLIS 2 Emotional “scripts” and personal moral identity: insights from the Greek fathers 19 PAUL M. BLOWERS 3 Personhood in miaphysitism: Severus of Antioch and John Philoponus 29 JOHANNES ZACHHUBER SECTION II Early to middle Byzantine 45 4 Hypostasis, person, and individual according to St. Maximus the Confessor, with reference to the Cappadocians and St. John of Damascus 47 JEAN-CLAUDE LARCHET vi Contents 5 Mary, the mother of God, in dialogue: the drama of personal encounter in the Byzantine liturgical tradition 68 MARY B. CUNNINGHAM 6 Personification in Byzantine hymnography: Kontakia and canons 80 DAMASKINOS (OLKINUORA) OF XENOPHONTOS SECTION III Late Byzantine 101 7 The exemplar of consubstantiality: St. Gregory Palamas’s hesychast as an expression of a microcosmic approach to personhood 103 DEMETRIOS HARPER 8 Nicholas Cabasilas of Thessaloniki: the historical dimension of the person 114 MARIE-HÉLÈNE CONGOURDEAU 9 Freedom, necessity, and the laws of nature in the thought of Gennadios Scholarios 128 MATTHEW C. BRIEL SECTION IV Modern 135 10 Flesh and Spirit: divergent Orthodox readings of the iconic body in Byzantium and the twentieth century 137 EVAN FREEMAN 11 Nikos Nissiotis, the “theology of the ’60s,” and personhood: continuity or discontinuity? 161 NIKOLAOS ASPROULIS 12 Eastern Christian conceptions of personhood and their political significance 173 NICOLAS PREVELAKIS Contents vii 13 Consubstantial selves: a discussion between Orthodox personalism, existential psychology, Heinz Kohut, and Jean-Luc Marion 182 NICHOLAS LOUDOVIKOS Index 197 Acknowledgements AcknowledgmentsAcknowledgments We would like to thank all those who helped bring this volume to fruition. In the first instance, we are grateful to the 13 contributors to this volume, whose patience was often tried by us, but never shaken. The work of volume editing is often likened to the thankless task of herding cats, but in this case, it proved a joy. We are likewise grateful to the staff at Routledge, in particular Jack Boothroyd, who was invaluable at shepherding us through the publication process. Several of the contributions to this volume were initially given at a conference held in Thes- saloniki in May 2014. We are grateful for the various financial and institutional support that helped make that conference possible, including a European Union grant via Greece’s National Strategic Reference Framework, the support of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki, and a grant from the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius. Alexis Torrance and Symeon Paschalidis December 7, 2017 Contributors ContributorsContributors Nikolaos Asproulis is Deputy Director of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies (Volos, Greece) and Lecturer at the Post-Graduate Program of Orthodox Theology, School of Humanities, Hellenic Open University (Greece). Paul M. Blowers is the Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History in the Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan College, Tennessee. He is a scholar of Greek and Byzantine patristics and has published extensively on Maximus the Confessor. Matthew C. Briel is Assistant Professor of Theology at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. Marie-Hélène Congourdeau, chercheur honoraire au CNRS and membre asso- cié de l’UMR 8167 Orient Méditerranée (Monde byzantin), Collège de France, Paris. She is presently working on a biography of Nicolas Cabasilas. Mary B. Cunningham is Honorary Associate Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham. She has published books and articles on the role of the Virgin Mary in Byzantine and modern Orthodox Christian tradition, as well as on subjects relating to Byzantine preaching, hagiography, and liturgy. Evan Freeman is a PhD candidate in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University and a lecturer in Liturgical Art at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. Demetrios Harper is Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Theology, Religion, and Philosophy at the University of Winchester and Assistant Editor of Analogia: The Pemptousia Journal for Theological Studies. Christos Karakolis is Associate Professor of New Testament at the Department of Theology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and Research Fellow of the Department for Old and New Testament Studies at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
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