Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth: Studies in Honour of Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia

279 Pages·2016·3.873 MB·English

by  Andreas Andreopoulos, Graham Speake

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Andreas Andreopoulos is Reader in Orthodox Christianity at the
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include Gazing on God: Trinity, Church and Salvation in the Orthodox o
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Church (2013); This is My Beloved Son: The Transfiguration of o
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Christ (2012); The Sign of the Cross: The Gesture, the Mystery, the l Rightly Dividing
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History (2006); Art as Theology: From the Postmodern to the Medieval s

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(2006); and Metamorphosis: The Transfiguration in Byzantine Theology n
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Graham Speake is founder and Chairman of the Friends of Mount e
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which he was awarded the Criticos Prize, the Encyclopedia of Greece d Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia
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and the Hellenic Tradition, 2 vols (2000), and a number of edited )
volumes on Athonite history and spirituality. He was received into
the Orthodox Church on Mount Athos and is a spiritual child of
Andreas Andreopoulos and
Metropolitan Kallistos.
Graham Speake (eds)
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Rightly Dividing
the Word of Truth
Studies in Honour of
Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia
Andreas Andreopoulos and
Graham Speake (eds)
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Names: Kallistos, Bishop of Diokleia, 1934- honouree. | Andreopoulos,
Andreas, 1966- editor. | Speake, Graham, 1946- editor.
Title: Rightly dividing the word of truth : studies in honour of Metropolitan
Kallistos of Diokleia / Andreas Andreopoulos & Graham Speake.
Description: 1 [edition]. | New York : Peter Lang, 2016. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016007930 | ISBN 9783034319973 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Orthodox Eastern Church--History. | Orthodox Eastern
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Cover image: Metropolitan Kallistos serving the Divine Liturgy at Simonopetra
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Message from His All-Holiness Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew xi
Address by His Eminence Archbishop Gregorios
of Thyateira and Great Britain xiii
ANDREAS ANDREOPOULOS AND GRAHAM SPEAKE
Introduction 1
Part 1 Tributes to Metropolitan Kallistos
FRANCES JENNINGS
1 The Spiritual Father 7
NIKOLAI SAKHAROV
2 The Monk 13
STEPHEN PLATT
3 The Pastor and Bishop 19
MARCUS PLESTED
4 The Teacher 23
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† EPHREM LASH
5 The Translator and Writer 27
ANDREW LOUTH
6 The Theologian 33
ANDREAS ANDREOPOULOS
7 An English Orthodox Bishop? 41
Part 2 Papers in Honour of Metropolitan Kallistos
SEBASTIAN BROCK
8 An Early Syriac Exposition of the Holy Mysteries 49
MAXIMOS CONSTAS
9 ‘Nothing is Greater than Divine Love’:
Evagrios of Pontos, St Maximos the Confessor,
and the Philokalia 57
HILARION ALFEYEV
10 St Symeon the New Theologian and the
Studite Monastic Tradition 75
ELIZABETH JEFFREYS
11 On the Annunciation: Manganeios Prodromos, no. 120 105
JOHN CHRYSSAVGIS
12 Philokalia: A Vocabulary for Our Time 113
NIKOLAOS HATZINIKOLAOU
13 The Desert, Hesychia, and Ascesis: Then and Now 131
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JOHN BEHR
14 Patristic Texts as Icons 151
ROWAN WILLIAMS
15 Deification, Hypostatization, and Kenosis 171
ELIZABETH THEOKRITOFF
16 Priest of Creation or Cosmic Liturgy? 189
DIMITRI CONOMOS
17 C. S. Lewis and Church Music 213
Epilogue
KALLISTOS WARE
18 Fifty-Four Years as an Athonite Pilgrim 237
Notes on Contributors 253
Index 259

Acknowledgements
Most of the papers included in this volume were first delivered at a sym-
posium which was held by the Friends of Mount Athos in honour of
Metropolitan Kallistos’s eightieth birthday at Madingley Hall, Cambridge,
in February 2015. A few more papers were specially commissioned after the
event. All the contributions are written by former students, colleagues, or
friends of the Metropolitan and we are grateful to them all for agreeing to
participate in both the conference and the subsequent volume.
The society would like to acknowledge with grateful thanks the gen-
erous sponsorship that it received from the Gerald Palmer Eling Trust,
the A. G. Leventis Foundation, and the Prince of Wales Foundation in
support of the conference. The editors in their turn would like to thank
the Friends of Mount Athos for generously contributing towards the cost
of publishing the proceedings. They are also grateful to Hadrian Liem for
kindly supplying the photograph that was used to illustrate the front cover
of the book and to Noel White for giving permission for his drawing of
Metropolitan Kallistos to be used as a frontispiece.
It goes without saying that neither the symposium, nor the volume,
nor much of what today constitutes Orthodoxy in the West would have
been possible without the inspiring presence of His Eminence, our beloved
bishop. We are delighted to include his own contribution to the sym-
posium as an epilogue to the book; and we are proud to offer the entire
volume to him as a token of our affection and admiration for all that he
has achieved in his first eight decades. In the time-honoured phrase, we
wish him many years.
A.A.
G.S.
Feast of the Transfiguration 2016