Aristotle Papanikolaou

Chasing the Devil at Foggy Bottom

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Can we continue to ignore the geopolitical significance of religion? Shaun Casey clearly demonstrates the high cost of doing so. As a specialist in religious ethics and as the founding director of the US Department of State’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs, there is no one better suited than Casey to illustrate the role that religion has always played globally in public life, while also offering a vision on how to intelligently craft foreign policy that is religiously literate.”

Embodied Existence

Theology

“In our increasingly virtual world where the collapsing of time and space has been intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are in need more than ever of an incarnational theological anthropology that sees matter as the means for bearing the weight of God’s presence. Embodied Existence provides such a theological vision. . . . Through this remarkable book, Bargár teaches us much about what it means to be human.”

Human Knowledge According to Saint Maximus the Confessor

Theology

“Through her meticulous reading of St. Maximus the Confessor, Dimitrova demonstrates convincingly how his understanding of human knowledge is central to his thinking about familiar aspects of his theology--Christology, ascetical life, virtues, and eschatology. Her analysis of this understudied aspect of the thought of St. Maximus extends our own knowledge of one of the greatest minds in Eastern and Western Christian thought. She makes an important contribution to the growing scholarship on St. Maximus.”

Icons and the Name of God

Theology

“The great tragedy of contemporary Orthodox theology is that Sergius Bulgakov remains one of the most understudied and underappreciated Orthodox theologians of the twentieth century. . . . In true Bulgakovian fashion, Icons and the Name of God does not simply describe what the icon is, but how the icon is possible -- the presencing of the divine in and through the material form. Like no other contemporary Orthodox theologian, Bulgakov engages the patristic tradition in a critically appreciative manner toward rendering an understanding of the icon that responds to contemporary questions. No serious Orthodox theology of the icon can ignore this magnificent text.”

Mission from the Perspective of the Other

Evangelism & Missions

“Scripturally, theologically, philosophically, and historically, Tim Noble brilliantly argues how mission can and should be an encounter with the irreducible uniqueness of the Other, who in her journey toward and in Christ, simultaneously expands, deepens, and illuminates the Christian faith of the missionary. Given the changing landscape of the missionary field, and the suffering inflicted by Christian missionaries in the past and present, this book points to how Christians can heed the command to preach the Gospel in a way where form is identical with content.”

Rethinking Gender in Orthodox Christianity

Theology

“These essays demonstrate what it means to think like a Tradition, as they explore a timely contemporary issue within the contours of the history of Orthodox theology and practices. These bold and insightful essays have much to teach specialists and non-specialists, as well as Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike, on how to approach our present-day questions around gender.”

Russian Wisdom Christology and Western Theology

Theology

“The theological depths and riches of Russian sophiology remained dormant for far too long. But as William Thompson-Uberuaga reminds us, Sophia is calling. He meets that call by unpacking the insights of Bulgakov and Florensky and showing how they inspired Thomas Merton long before the rest of the Christian world discovered their brilliance.”

Scaffolds of the Church

Theology

“Hovorun offers a refreshing analysis of the various structures of the church as they developed over time. . . . [He] convincingly argues that the nature of the church should not lead to reified structures, and points the way to faithful reform in the face of new problems and challenges facing the church.”

T. F. Torrance and Eastern Orthodoxy

Theology

“In our paradoxical situation of globalization that has led to increased fragmentation, and at a time when the fervent ecumenical hope for Christian unity has long since passed, the appearance of this book is both timely and urgent.”

The Hermeneutics of Tradition

Theology

“In an age caught between the two poles, hypertheism and overhumanization, The Hermeneutics of Tradition offers fresh alternatives for negotiating the ambiguities of the texts, rituals, and symbols of the Christian tradition through the tradition. This collection of essays demonstrates that there is no such thing as traditionless existence, which entails being grounded in the certitude and stability of the truth claims and meaning of the Christian tradition while simultaneously being active interpreters toward yet undiscovered answers to old and new questions. A timely book with rich resources for how to think and live the Christian tradition.”

The Sophiology of Death

Theology

“A master of multiple sources—philosophical, theological, liturgical, scriptural, and patristic—which he synthesizes in order to leave no theological stone unturned without a response, Sergius Bulgakov is the Aquinas of our time. Roberto J. De La Noval’s masterful translation of these essays further reinforces Bulgakov’s genius and ongoing relevance for our contemporary questions.”

Varieties of Christian Universalism

Theology

“Caricatures and misrepresentations often fuel theological debates, especially on controversial themes such as Christian universalism. These essays offer clarity on the variety of universalist theologies in response to the perennial question of Christian universalism, at a time when this debate is again having a moment and in a way that does not offer a definitive conclusion but provides the conditions for a real conversation.”

Women and Ordination in the Orthodox Church

Women

“This collection of essays represents by far the most thorough engagement within Orthodox theology with the question of women’s ordination. With contributions from some of the most recognizable scholars of Orthodox Christianity, this volume advances the discussion in such a way that the idea of women deacons—or even priests and bishops—within the Orthodox church cannot be so easily ignored or dismissed as being in contradiction with the Tradition.”