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| Foreword< | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Communion and Otherness | |
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| On Being Other: Towards an Ontology of Otherness | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Otherness and the Being of Creation | |
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| The Gulf between Uncreated and Created Being | |
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| Bridging the Gulf of Otherness | |
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| Otherness and the Being of God | |
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| Otherness and the Being of Christ | |
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| Otherness and the Being of the Church | |
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| Otherness and the Human Being | |
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| Otherness as Constitutive of the Human Being | |
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| Otherness as the Tragedy of the Human Being | |
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| Otherness and the Self | |
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| Otherness and Nature | |
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| Otherness and the 'New Being' | |
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| Otherness and the Logos of Nature | |
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| Otherness and Uniqueness | |
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| Otherness and Eros | |
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| Otherness and Ecclesial Existence | |
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| Otherness and the Ascetic Ethos | |
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| Otherness and the Eucharistic Ethos | |
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| On Being a Person: Towards an Ontology of Personhood | |
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| The Personal Question as an Ontological Question | |
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| Presuppositions for an Ontology of Personhood | |
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| Conclusions for an Ontology of Personhood | |
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| The Father As Cause: Personhood Generating Otherness | |
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| The Patristic Background | |
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| The Early Creeds | |
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| The Cappadocians | |
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| In Defence of the Cappadocians | |
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| Being and Personhood | |
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| Causality and Communion | |
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| Causality and the Ultimate Reality in God | |
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| Causality and Ordering | |
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| Consequences for Anthropology | |
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| Consequences for Ecclesiology | |
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| Consequences for Monotheism | |
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| The Trinity and Personhood: Appreciating the Cappadocian Contribution | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Historical Context | |
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| Sabellianism | |
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| Eunomianism | |
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| The Philosophical Implications | |
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| The Anthropological Consequences | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Person and Individual - a 'Misreading' of the Cappadocians? | |
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| Pneumatology and the Importance of the Person: A Commentary on the Second Ecumenical Council | |
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| Introduction | |
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| From Nicaea to Constantinople: The Crucial Issues and the New Theological Ideas | |
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| The Establishment of the Dialectic between 'Created' and 'Uncreated' | |
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| The Questioning of the Substantialist Language and the Emergence of the Notion of Person | |
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| The Emergence of Doxological Theology and the Contrast between 'Theologia' and 'Oikonomia' | |
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| Important Points of the Pneumatology of the Second Ecumenical Council | |
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| The Holy Spirit Is God | |
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| The Holy Spirit Proceeds from the Father | |
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| From Constantinople to Today | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Human Capacity and Human Incapacity: A Theological Exploration of Personhood | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Substantialist Approach | |
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| Personhood as Ekstasis and Hypostasis of Being | |
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| Personhood in the Light of Christology and Pneumatology | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| 'Created' and 'Uncreated': The Existential Significance of Chalcedonian Christology | |
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| The Appearance of the Created-Uncreated Dialectic | |
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| The Existential Significance of the Created-Uncreated Dialectic | |
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| Transforming the Created-Uncreated Dialectic by Christology | |
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| Some Problems for Further Discussion | |
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| The Meaning of Death | |
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| The Question of the Immortality of the Soul | |
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| The Salvation of the World by Christ | |
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| A Dialogue with Philip Sherrard | |
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| The Letter of Dr Sherrard | |
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| The Response of Dr Zizioulas | |
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| The Meaning of Nothingness | |
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| God as Creator by Necessity | |
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| Misunderstandings of the Concept of 'Nature' | |
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| The Theme of the Immortality of the Soul | |
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| Epilogue to the Discussion | |
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| The Church As the 'Mystical' Body of Christ: Towards an Ecclesial Mysticism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The 'Body of Christ'as a 'Mystical' Notion | |
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| Eucharistic Mysticism | |
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| Prophetic or Word Mysticism | |
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| Ministerial Mysticism | |
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| Ascetic or Monastic Mysticism | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| List of Sources | |
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| Index of Names | |