Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church

by John Zizioulas

Publisher:

St Vladimir’s Seminary Press

, 1985

Overview

The voice of Metropolitan John Zizioulas may turn out to be the fresh voice for which theology, and especially the study of the Christian Church, have long been waiting. 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--the author propounds a fresh understanding, based on the early Fathers and the Orthodox tradition, of the concept of person and 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. The French Dominican priest Yves Congar has written that he considers the author to be “one of the most original and profound theologians of our epoch” and that he “presents a penetrating and coherent reading of the tradition of the Greek Fathers.”

Key Features

• Approaches the study of the person and of the church itself by exploring some major theological topics
• Explores the universal Church as a communion of all Churches
• Presents a penetrating and coherent reading of the tradition of the Greek Fathers

Product Details

• Title: Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church
• Author: John Zizioulas
• Series: Contemporary Greek Theologians
• Volume: 4
• Publisher: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press
• Print Publication Date: 1985
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 269
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Church › Addresses, essays, lectures; Orthodox Eastern Church › Doctrines--Addresses, essays, lectures
• ISBNs: 0881410292, 9780881410297, 9780232525311, 0232525315
• Resource ID: LLS:BNGSPRSNHDCHRCH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:14:12Z

About John Zizioulas

John Zizioulas (b. 1931) is an Eastern Orthodox theologian and titular Metropolitan of Pergamon, under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Zizioulas first studied at the University of Thessaloniki but eventually graduated with a degree in theology from the University of Athens in 1955. He then studied patristics under Georges Florovsky at Harvard Divinity School where he received his MTS in 1956 and earned his doctorate in theology from the University of Athens in 1965. Zizioulas was professor of theology for 14 years at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh (both in Scotland), and has been a visiting professor at the University of Geneva, Gregorian University, and King’s College, London. He was consecrated as a bishop on June 22, 1986 and named Metropolitan of Pergamon.

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