John D. Zizioulas ; with a foreword by John Meyendorff.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Crestwood, N.Y. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
St. Vladimir's Seminary Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1985.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
269 pages ;
Dimensions
22 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Contemporary Greek theologians ;
Volume Designation
no. 4
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (page 261) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Personhood and being -- Truth and communion -- Christ, the spirit and the church -- Eucharist and Catholicity -- Apostolic continuity and succession -- Ministry and communion -- The local church in a perspective of communion.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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A systematic contemporary presentation of Orthodox ecclesiology. Significant chapters on Eucharist and catholicity, apostolic continuity and succession, ministry and communion, and the local church.
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In the context of a complete theology, which includes extended consideration of the major theological topics the Trinity, Christology, eschatology, ministry, and sacrament, but above all the Eucharist, Zizioulas propounds a fresh understanding, based on the early Fathers and the Orthodox tradition, of the concept of person, and so of the Church itself. His consideration of the local church as 'catholic' in the literal sense, and the need to understand the universal Church not as a superstructure but as the communion of all Churches, provides the program for the ecclesiology of the future.