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Title:

The teachings of modern Orthodox Christianity on law, politics, and human nature / edited by John Witte, Jr. and Frank S. Alexander ; introduction by Paul Valliere.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xxxiii, 371 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Orthodox Eastern Church--Doctrines

Other Authors:

Witte, John, 1959-
Alexander, Frank S., 1952-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

Introduction to the modern orthodox tradition / Paul Valliere -- Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900) -- Commentary / Paul Valliere -- Original source materials -- Author's preface to the spiritual foundations of life (1882-84) -- Law and morality : essays in applied ethics (1897) -- Russia and the universal church (1889) -- The justification of the good (1897) -- Morality and legal justice -- The moral organisation of humanity as a whole -- Nicholas berdyaev (1874-1948) -- Commentary / Vigen Guroian -- Original source materials on the nature and value of personality -- Personalism v. egoism -- Personality and the andric existence -- Personality and communion -- Christianity and redemption -- The fall : the origin of good and evil -- God is beyond good and evil -- Freedom, free will, and values -- Types of ethics -- The ethics of law -- The ethics of redemption -- The ethics of creativeness -- Creativeness and imagination -- Creativeness and beauty -- Creativeness and the kingdom of heaven -- Vladimir nikolaievich lossky (1903-1958) -- Commentary / Mikhail Kulakov -- Original source materials -- Sept jours sur les routes de France -- The mystical theology of the eastern church -- The way of union -- Redemption and deification -- The temptations of ecclesial consciousness -- Tradition and traditions -- Dominion and kingship : an eschatological study -- The theological notion of the human person -- Catholic consciousness -- Orthodox theology : an introduction -- Mother Maria Skobtsova (1891-1945) -- Commentary / Michael Plekon -- Original source materials -- The second gospel commandment -- On the imitation of the mother of God -- The mysticism of human communion -- The cross and the hammer-and-sickle -- Towards a new monasticism -- The poor in spirit -- A justification of pharasaism -- Insight in wartime -- Types of religious life -- Dumitru staniloae (1903-1993) -- Commentary / Lucian Turcescu -- Original source materials -- Natural revelation -- The orthodox doctrine of salvation -- The tree of knowledge of good and evil -- Providence and the deification of the world -- Mornings with Father Staniloae -- The moral aspect of nationalism -- The permanent national ideal -- Brief theological interpretation of the nation.

ISBN:

023114265X (pbk.)
9780231142656 (pbk.)
0231142641 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231142649 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)80358814

LCCN:

2007002064

Locations:

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)