Mystery of Faith : An Introduction to the Teaching and the Spirituality of the Orthodox Church

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Pub. Date: 2004-01-01
Publisher(s): Darton Longman & Todd Ltd
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Author Biography

Hilarion Alfeyev, Bishop of Podolsk, is head of the Moscow Patriarchate representation at the European Union in Brussels.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia ix
Author's Note xi
Introduction: What is Dogma? xiii
1 THE SEARCH FOR FAITH
1(13)
The call
1(2)
Many paths
3(3)
Philosophy in search of a supreme good
6(3)
The Old Testament: divine revelation
9(5)
2 GOD
14(17)
The word 'God'
14(2)
The divine names
16(5)
The attributes of God
21(3)
Cataphatic and apophatic theology
24(7)
3 THE TRINITY
31(11)
The mystery of the Trinity
31(2)
Trinitarian terminology
33(3)
Unity of love
36(6)
4 CREATION
42(16)
God the Creator
42(2)
The angels
44(2)
The origin of evil
46(3)
The universe
49(9)
5 THE HUMAN PERSON
58(21)
The creation of humanity
58(1)
Image and likeness
59(2)
Soul and body
61(3)
Humanity before the Fall
64(3)
The Fall
67(3)
'Original sin'
70(2)
Anticipating the Messiah
72(7)
6 CHRIST
79(17)
The new Adam
79(2)
The Christ of the gospels: God and man
81(2)
The Christ of faith: two natures
83(4)
Redemption
87(9)
7 THE CHURCH
96(34)
The Kingdom of Christ
96(2)
Heaven on earth
98(2)
The attributes of the Church
100(3)
Church hierarchy
103(4)
The place of women in the Church
107(2)
The Mother of God and the saints
109(3)
The holy icons
112(4)
The Cross
116(2)
Church time
118(2)
The Church and churches: divisions and reconciliation
120(10)
8 THE SACRAMENTS
130(37)
Life in the sacraments
130(2)
Baptism
132(3)
Chrismation
135(2)
The Eucharist
137(7)
The sacrament of repentance
144(2)
Anointing with oil
146(3)
Marriage
149(5)
Priesthood
154(3)
Monasticism
157(10)
9 PRAYER
167(17)
Divine worship
167(3)
Silence
170(3)
Watchfulness
173(1)
'Inward meditation'
174(5)
Prayer and theology
179(5)
10 DEIFICATION 184(15)
The vision of God
184(5)
The transfiguration of the person
189(10)
11 THE LIFE OF THE AGE TO COME 199(32)
The end of history
199(3)
Death and resurrection
202(3)
Prayer for the departed
205(3)
The Last Judgement
208(4)
'What is hell?'
212(4)
'That God may be all in all'
216(8)
A new heaven and a new earth'
224(7)
Notes 231(18)
Appendix 249(8)
Bibliography 257(4)
Index 261(4)
The Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius 265

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