Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
Pages: 310
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Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-9787-0378-0 • Hardback • October 2019 • $116.00 • (£89.00)
978-1-9787-0379-7 • eBook • October 2019 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
Viorel Coman is postdoctoral researcher of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) in the faculty of theology and religious studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
1. Dumitru Stăniloae: A Neo-Patristic Theologian
2. Stăniloae’s Early Approach (1964–1978) to the Filioque
3. Stăniloae’s Approach to the Filioque in an Ecumenical Context: Methodology of Conversation (1971) and Engagement in Dialogues (1979–1993)
4. The “Holy Grail” of 20th-Century Christian Theology: The Ecclesiological Synthesis between Christology and Pneumatology
5. Stăniloae’s Early Ecclesiology (1938–1964): A Christological Approach to the Church
6. The Church in Light of the Mystery of the Trinity: Stăniloae’s Late Ecclesiology (1964–1993)
This excellent book introduces the reader to one of the twentieth century’s most important Orthodox thinkers, whose writings on ecclesiology, Christology, and Trinitarian theology are set forth here with great skill. Especially enlightening is the author’s analysis of Dumitru Stăniloae’s views on the filioque, how they developed, and how they impacted his evolving understanding of the church. Still largely unknown in the English-speaking world, Stăniloae’s theology finally gets the attention it deserves in Viorel Coman’s first-rate treatment.— A. Edward Siecienski, Stockton University
Coman is already the specialist on the Romanian Orthodox theologian Dumitru Stăniloae’s position on the filioque. Since Stăniloae’s thought evolved over a decades-long career and a monumental oeuvre, Coman’s study is bound to become the main resource on this subject. Bringing a significant ecumenical contribution, the present volume also corrects the mischaracterization of Stăniloae as an anti-Western theologian, proving that he wrote tirelessly in the hope of Christian unity— Radu Bordeianu, Duquesne University
"In this rigorous academic work, Coman offers original research on Stănliloae’s views on filioque and Trinitarian ecclesiology in dialogue with the Roman Catholic and Orthodox theologians of his era."
— Ecclesiology