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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: who are the Eastern Orthodox? | |
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| Thinking and doing, being and praying: where do we start? | |
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| Standing before the mystery of God | |
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| Approaching theology | |
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| Encountering Christ | |
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| The Scriptures | |
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| Orthodox use of the Scriptures | |
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| The Fathers, Councils, liturgical prayer | |
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| Who is God? The doctrine of the Holy Trinity | |
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| Who is Christ? | |
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| God as the One to whom we pray | |
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| … using the words he himself has given us | |
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| God as Trinity | |
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| Prayer and the Trinity | |
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| The Holy Spirit | |
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| The dogma of the Trinity | |
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| The Trinity and the apophatic | |
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| Coinherence and love in the Trinity | |
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| The fundamental nature of the apophatic | |
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| The doctrine of creation | |
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| The early Christian doctrine of creation | |
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| Creation out of nothing | |
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| Essence and energies | |
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| Logoi of creation | |
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| Sophiology | |
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| Angels and demons | |
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| Who is Christ? | |
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| Christ and the Gospels | |
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| Christ and the resurrection | |
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| Christ and the apostolic witness | |
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| Death and Christ's voluntary passion | |
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| Christ and prayer | |
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| The dogma of Christ | |
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| The Christology of the Councils | |
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| Sin, death and repentance | |
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| Repentance and Christ | |
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| Beauty and disorder | |
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| Human kind and the Fall | |
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| Death and sin | |
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| Adam and ancestral sin | |
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| Sin and the cosmos | |
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| Ancestral sin and evolution | |
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| Adam and Eve … and repentance | |
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| Being human - being in the image of God | |
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| The doctrine of the image of God | |
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| The image of God in the Fathers | |
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| Image and logos | |
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| Image and Christ | |
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| Person and community | |
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| The Church - one and many | |
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| Sobornost' and the Church | |
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| Sacraments and icons: the place of matter in the divine economy | |
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| Christian materialism | |
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| Mystery or sacrament? | |
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| Images and symbols | |
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| Seven sacraments? | |
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| The sacramental structure of the Church | |
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| The sacramental shape of human life | |
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| Sacramental symbolism | |
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| Symbolism and sacramental transformation | |
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| Icons | |
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| Icons and the 'in-between' | |
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| The icon and the face | |
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| Icons and the Mother of God | |
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| Icons and prayer | |
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| Time and the liturgy | |
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| Theology and participation | |
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| Participation and the divine liturgy | |
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| Time and space - cycles of change | |
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| The Church Year - cycles of time | |
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| Cycles - of meaning or unmeaning | |
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| The symbolism of the liturgy | |
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| Liturgical dance | |
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| Where are we going? The last things and eternal life | |
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| Eucharist as eschatology | |
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| Universal eschatology | |
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| Individual eschatology | |
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| Problems in eschatology | |
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| The nature of the resurrection body | |
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| Universal salvation | |
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| A guide to further reading | |
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| Index | |