Patristic and Scholastic Theology in Perspective

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Metropolitan of Nafpaktos Hierotheos

Patristic and Scholastic Theology in Perspective

Metropolitan Hierotheos throws light on the distinctions between patristic and scholastic theology, using as his basis the spoken teaching of Father John Romanides.

English Language

Paperback

Size: 24 x 17
Pages: 570
ISBN: 9786185269456

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Metropolitan Hierotheos throws light on the distinctions between patristic and scholastic theology, using as his basis the spoken teaching of Father John Romanides.

In the West a particular theology developed using human reason, whereas patristic theology centres on the revelation of God to the human heart through the illumined nous. This book focuses on the difference between these two approaches to theology, as well as exploring the wider context of Greek philosophy, Russian theology and neo-Hellenic theology.

Because the historical foundations of patristic theology lie in the united Christian Empire of the Romans, whereas scholastic theology finds expression in Western Europe as shaped by the Franks, a final section on ‘Franks and Romans’ presents controversial views of historical events, including the French and Greek Revolutions, from an Orthodox theological perspective.

It is fashionable today to teach that patristic theology came to an end in the eighth century, that scholastic theology transcended patristic theology, and that Russian theology surpassed both. However, such views undermine the foundations of Orthodox theology and ultimately of the Orthodox Church.

	Preface
	Introduction
	1 Fr John Romanides and Western Theology
1.	Influences on the Teaching of Fr John Romanides
2.	Fr John Romanides and Empirical Hesychasm
3.	From Scholastic and Protestant Theology to Patristic Theology
4.	Fr John Romanides’ Criticism of Biblical Criticism
5.	Final Conclusions
	2 Metaphysical Philosophy
1.	Definition and Principles of Philosophy
2.	Classical Metaphysics
	a) Plato
	b) Aristotle
	c) The Neoplatonists
3.	The Philosophical Theology of the Ancient Heretics
	3 Patristic Theology
1.	‘Interpretative Keys’
	a) Trinitarian Theology
	b) Christology
	c) Ecclesiology
	d) Eschatology
2.	The Fathers and Philosophy
	a) The Fathers Knew Philosophy
	b) The Fathers Were not Philosophers
	c) Byzantium and Philosophy
	d) A Mistaken View of the Patristic Tradition
	e) The Fathers against Philosophy and Metaphysics
3.	The Fathers and Neoplatonism
	a) Neoplatonism
	b) The Difference between the Fathers and the Neoplatonists
4.	Experience of the Holy Spirit as the Basis of Patristic Theology
	a) Empirical Terminology
	b) Empirical Methodology
	c) Empirical Epistemology
	d) Deluded Experience
	4 Scholastic Theology
1.	The Term Scholastic Theology
2.	Scholastic Theologians
3.	The Foundations of Scholastic Theology
	a) Augustine Bishop of Hippo
	i.General Comments on Augustine’s Teaching
	ii.Basic Points of Augustine’s Teaching
	b) The Misinterpretation of the Writings of St Dionysius the Areopagite in the West
	c) Platonic and Aristotelian Philosophy among the Scholastics
	d) ‘Universals’ and ‘Particulars’
	e) Analogia Entis and Analogia Fidei
	f ) Thomas Aquinas
4.	Reactions to Scholasticism and its Influence
	a) Orthodox Reactions
	i. The Dialogue between St Gregory Palamas and Barlaam
	ii.Encounter between the Scholastic Thomas Aquinas and Kallistos Angelikoudis
	b) Western Reactions to Scholasticism and its Influences
	i. Nominalism
	ii. Renaissance
	iii. Reformation
	iv.Enlightenment
	v. German Idealism
	vi.Existentialism
	5 Russian Theology
1.	Orthodox and Western Influences on the Russian Church and Theology
2.	Orthodox and Western Influences on Monasticism
3.	Slavophile Theology and the Views of Alexis Khomiakov
4.	Contemporary Russian Theology
	a) The Theological Institute of St Sergius in Paris
	b) The Theory that the Patristic Tradition has been Surpassed
	c) The Human Person, according to Lossky
	d) Eucharistic Ecclesiology, according to Afanasiev
	6 Neo-Hellenic Theology
1.	Orthodox Hesychasm and Western Influences in the Orthodox East in the Fourteenth Century
2.	Theology under Turkish Domination
	a) Orthodox Hesychasm and Western Influences among the Oppressed Greeks [Romioi]
	b) Theological Resistance
	i. Preserving the Orthodox Tradition
	ii. Preserving Monasticism and the Hesychastic Life
	iii. The Contribution of the New Martyrs
3.	The Influences of Western Tradition on the Founding of the Greek State
	a) Latin and Protestant Propaganda
	b) Adamantios Korais, ‘Father of Neo-Hellenism’
	i. Self-Proclaimed Autocephaly of the Church of Greece
	ii. The Theological Schools
	iii. Religious Life
	7 Romans and Franks
1.	The Roman Empire
2.	‘The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation’
	a) Barbarian Invasions and Conquests
	b) The Feudal System
	c) Roman Resistance and Uprisings
	d) Plan for Full Independence of the Western Part of the Roman Empire
	e) Falsification of History and Propaganda
3.	The French and Greek Revolutions
4.	The Founding of the Greek State
5.	Modern Europe
	Final Words

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