Personhood in the Byzantine Christian Tradition

Introduction, Alexis Torrance and Symeon Paschalidis Section I – Ancient Christian, Early Byzantine 1 Personal relationship as a prerequisite for moral imitation according to the Apostle Paul, Christos Karakolis 2 Emotional "scripts" and personal moral identity: insights from the Greek Fathers, Paul M. Blowers 3 Personhood in miaphysitism: Severus of Antioch and John Philoponus, Johannes Zachhuber Section II – Early to Middle Byzantine 4 Hypostasis, person and individual according to St Maximus the Confessor, with reference to the Cappadocians and St John of Damascus, Jean-Claude Larchet 5 Mary, the Mother of God, in dialogue: the drama of personal encounter in the Byzantine liturgical tradition, Mary B. Cunningham 6 Personification in Byzantine hymnography: kontakia and canons, Damaskinos Olkinuora Section III – Late Byzantine 7 The exemplar of consubstantiality: St. Gregory Palamas’ hesychast as an expression of a microcosmic approach to personhood, Demetrios Harper 8 Nicholas Cabasilas of Thessaloniki: the historical dimension of the person, Marie-Hélène Congourdeau 9 Freedom, necessity and the laws of nature in the thought of Gennadios Scholarios, Matthew C. Briel Section IV – Modern 10 Flesh and Spirit: divergent Orthodox readings of the iconic body in Byzantium and the twentieth century, Evan Freeman 11 Nikos Nissiotis, the "theology of the ’60s" and personhood: continuity or discontinuity? Nikolaos Asproulis 12 Eastern Christian conceptions of personhood and their political significance, Nicolas Prevelakis 13 Consubstantial Selves: a discussion between Orthodox personalism, existential psychology, Heinz Kohut, and Jean-Luc Marion, Nicholas Loudovikos