Love, Marriage and Family in Eastern Orthodox Perspective / / ed. by Theodore Grey Dedon, Sergey Trostyanskiy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Atanassova, Antonia,; Beck, Bruce,; Blaze Miller, Alexander,; Chaudhari, Pia,; Damian, Theodor,; Dedon, Theodore,; Dunn, David J.,; Ephrem Gall, William,; Frederick Frost, Carrie,; Gidus-Mecera, Annmarie,; Grey Dedon, Theodore,; Mamalakis, Philip,; Maxwell, Drew,; Mccarty, V. K.,; Mccray, Kate,; Mcguckin, J. A.,; Pahman, Dylan,; Pappas, Kerry,; Pavlantos, Clio,; Petrakis, Vicki,; Pettis, Jeffrey B.,; Plekon, Michael,; Trostyanskiy, Sergey,; Ugolnik, Zachary,; Zymaris, Philip,
• HerausgeberIn: Dedon, Theodore Grey,; Trostyanskiy, Sergey,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)

This volume offers an array of theological and sociological studies on Family, Love, and Marriage in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. As new ways of understanding these institutions and concepts emerge in a modern society, this compilation sponsored by the Sophia Institute of Eastern Orthodox Studies incorporates a revisiting of biblical and Patristic understandings as they are received in the wider Orthodox Christian perspective.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Foreword: The Mystery of Marriage: An Orthodox Reflection -- The Sacrament of Love: Paul Evdokimov's Vision of Marriage, Love and Vocation -- Out of Dreams and Angels: Love, Marriage, and Family in the New Testament -- The Sacrament of Marriage and Union with God -- Marriage And Family: Traditional Values - Modern Realities -- Sexual Healing: Desire and Pleasure in the Thought of Sts. Augustine of Hippo and Gregory of Nyssa -- Uncovering Desire: Explorations in Eros, Aggression and the Question of Theosis in Marriage -- Contextuality and Normality: Orthodox Visions of Human Sexuality and Marriage -- Marriage and the Eucharist: From Unity to Schizophrenia - the Positive Theology of Marriage and its Distortion From an Eastern Orthodox Point of View -- Imaging the True Family in St. Gregory Nazianzen's Oration 14 -- Chrysostom's Pedagogy of Christian Fatherhood: Reorienting the Christian Family in a Non-Christian Society -- What Makes a Society? An Orthodox Perspective on Asceticism, Marriage, the Family, and Society -- Anna Komnene's Alexiad: Legacy from the Good Daughter (Kale Thugater) -- 'Set Ye In Order Charity In Me': Origen's Writings on The Song of Songs -- Philanthropia as God's Loving-Kindness: Origen of Alexandria and His Theology of Love -- The Reflexivity of Love in Fakhruddin 'Iraqi's Divine Flashes and St. Symeon the New Theologian's Hymns of Divine Eros -- 'The Time Has Come: The Why and the How of Bringing Change to the Postpartum Rites of the Orthodox Church' -- Psalms 112:5-9 and Alternative Family Arrangements -- Turning Toward as a Pastoral Theology of Marriage -- Caregiving as an Expression of Familial Love -- Toward a Better Understanding of the Clergy Couple -- 'The Beginning of Wisdom is to Fear the Lord, And She was Joined with the Faithful in the Womb.' WSir 1:12 The Theology of Children, An Insight from the Old and the New Testaments -- A Life of Ideal Beauty: St. Gregory of Nyssa and the Life of Macrina