Byzantine Orthodoxies

Andrew Louth is Professor and Augustine Casiday is Leverhulme Fellow, both in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham, UK.

• Contents: Preface; Introduction, Andrew Louth. Section I Defining Orthodoxy: The question of Nicene orthodoxy, John Behr; Gregory of Nazianzus as the authoritative voice of orthodoxy in the 6th-century, Caroline Macé; Theotokos-Diadochos, Dirk Krausmüller; Methodios and his synod, Patricia Karlin-Hayter; Prochoros Cydones and the 14th-century understanding of orthodoxy, Norman Russell. Section II Orthodoxy in Art and Liturgy: In the beginning was the Word...: art and orthodoxy at the Councils of Trullo (692) and Nicaea II (787), Leslie Brubaker; ...and the Word was with God...: what makes art orthodox?, Liz James; ...and the Word was God: art and orthodoxy in late Byzantium, Robin Cormack; The British Museum triumph of orthodoxy icon, Dimitra Kotoula; Medieval Byzantine chant and the sound of orthodoxy, Alexander Lingas; Byzantine hymns of hate, Archimandrite Ephrem (Lash). Section III Orthodoxy and the Other: Can we speak of Jewish orthodoxy in Byzantium, Nicholas de Lange; The apostolic foundation stone: the conception of orthodoxy in the controversy between Photius of Constantinople and Isaac surnamed Mrut, Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev; The orthodoxy of the Latins in the 12th century, Tia M. Kolbaba. Epilogue: Some constant characteristics of the Byzantine orthodoxy, Sergei Averintsev. Index.

’... this volume is a welcome collection of careful research and clear expression on the orthodoxies we usually fail to recognize, whether in the Byzantine or other contexts. Andrew Louth's most insightful introduction, which sets the papers into the larger context of historical theology while also relating them to each other, is especially commended to the reader.’ Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies