Person in the Orthodox Tradition Unknown - 1999

Levadea: Birth of the Theotocos Monastery, 1999. Brand new. In English. Second edition. Soft cover, 21 cm, 352 pp.; net weight 435 gr. ISBN: 978-960-7070-40-2.
Examines the basic teachings of the Fathers of the Church on the subject of the person. In attempting to define the person, the holy Fathers rejected the method and views of the philosophers. They asserted that the revelation and experience of the person takes place within the heart, when a human being is regenerated by divine grace. The person cannot be understood without Christian asceticism in association with the sacraments of the Church. As a practical example of a person in the fullest sense, the book includes a section which looks in detail at the life of St Symeon, a Fool for Christ of the sixth century, who was so discerning that he knew how to shock people in order to bring them to their senses and acknowledge their sins.
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Orthodox Book Centre, January 1999. Paper Back. New. Metropolitan Hierotheos' works always center around two foci: the doctrine of the human person discussed in terms of his illness and cure, and the doctrine of the Church, discussed in terms of a spiritual hospital, so the recent translation of this work is entirely logical. <i>The Person in the Orthodox Tradition</i> (1990) examines critically important terms in the history of the theology of the person, such as <i>ousia</i> and hypostasis, and the patristic teaching as a whole on the person. But for Hierotheos, the key to understanding the nature of the person is looking at the lives of the Saints, and that is his ultimate hermeneutic. Candidly, we have reservations about the partisan and polemical nature of some of Hierotheos' work; his discussions of philosophy are superficial and depend on secondary sources. His style is awkward (we can't say whether in spite or because of the translation) and the text… Leer más

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.