THINKING THROUGH FAITH: NEW PERSPECTIVES FROM ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS

Within these pages a younger generation of Orthodox scholarsin America takes up the perennial task of transmitting the meaning ofChristianity to a particular time and culture. This collection of twelveessays, as the title Thinking Through Faith implies, is the result of six yearsof reflective conversation and collaboration regarding core beliefs of theOrthodox faith, tenets that the authors present from fresh perspectives thatappeal to reason and spiritual sensibilities alike. Subjects covered include:The Kingdom of God, TheFoundations of Noetic Prayer, The Discipline of Theology, Understanding Pastoral Care in theEarly Church, Orthodox Theologiesof Women and Ordained Ministry, Reading the Lives of the Saints, The Meaning and Place of Death inan Orthodox Ethical Framework, Confession, Desire and Emotions, International Religious Freedom and the Challenge ofProselytism, "Typologies" of Orthopraxy, Byzantine Liturgy as God's Family at Prayer, and the Orthodox Church in theTwentieth-Century.