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Divine Essence and Divine EnergiesEcumenical Refl ections on the Presence of God

in Eastern OrthodoxyEdited by C. Athanasopoulos and C. Schneider

ISBN: 9780227173862 £25.00Publication Date: November 2012

For many contemporary Orthodox theologians the distinction between divine energy and divine essence belongs to the very core of the Orthodox tradition and has no equivalent in the West.This position has been restated and developed by Prof David Bradshaw in his crucial publication Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom (Cambridge: CUP, 2004). Yet the views expressed in this book have not remained uncontested. The present volume takes Bradshaw’s work as the starting point for an ecumenical debate about this doctrine. Leading Anglican, Calvinist and Roman Catholic, as well as Orthodox, theologians are given the opportunity to critically assess the nature and signifi cance of this doctrine from a historical, theological and philosophical perspective.

The authors contributing to this volume present very different and often mutually incompatible narratives, but all of them try to answer some of the following questions: In what way were the Aristotelian concepts of ousia and energeia used by the Church Fathers and how are they related to the Christological and Trinitarian doctrines? What theological function does the essence-energy distinction fulfi l in Eastern Orthodoxy? Is it possible to identify different notions of divine presence and participation in the Cappadocians, Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor and Gregory Palamas? What is the relationship between the essence-energy distinction and theWestern ideas of divine presence in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Martin Luther, John Calvin and Karl Barth? How is this doctrine related to Kantian and post-Kantian thought?

This collection of essays originated from a colloquium organised by the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies (Cambridge, UK). However, the number of papers and the scope of the questions discussed in Divine Essence and Divine Energies by far exceed the original conference programme.

Contributors Dr Constantinos Athanasopoulos (The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, UK) Prof David Bradshaw (University of Kentucky) Prof Roy Clouser (University of New Jersey) Rev Prof Antoine Levy OP (Studium Catholicum, Helsinki/University of Helsinki) Rev Prof Nikolaos Loudovikos (University Academy of Thessaloniki) Prof Georgios Martzelos (University of Thessaloniki) Prof John Milbank (University of Nottingham) Dr Christoph Schneider (The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, UK) Dr Nick Trakakis (Australian Catholic University) Metropolitan Vasilios (Karayiannis) of Constantia and Ammochostos (Cyprus)

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