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Yearning for the One: Chapters in the Inner Life of the Greeks

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In this searching investigation, Stelios Ramfos explores the roots of the modern debate on the person and concludes that the preoccupation of the Byzantine Greeks with eternity inhibited them from developing a fruitful sense of interiority. He argues that, nevertheless, a figure such as Leontius of Byzantium can suggest a way forward if Byzantine theological thinking is re-visited in the light of insights derived from the Western philosophical tradition.

Contents

Preface

PART I: THE IDENTITY OF THE PERSON

1. In Search of the Person

p. 3

The Parameters of the Problem

p. 3

Argument and Counterargument

p. 15

Dialogue

p. 37

2. Solution and Impasse

p. 95

The Search for the Person in the Medieval West

p. 95

The Search for the Person in the Byzantine East

p. 111

PART II: UNACHIEVED INDIVIDUATION

3. From the Theology of the Person to Its History

p. 133

Between Corruption and Incorruption

p. 133

The Babylonian Captivity of Orthodoxy to Symbols

p. 149

4. Stages in Greek Individualism

p. 179

Orientation

p. 179

Symeon the Pious and Symeon the New Theologian

p. 186

Kekaumenon’s Strategikon

p. 204

The Spaneas

p. 215

Bessarion’s Letter

p. 224

Gnomologia and Mathemataria

p. 228

The Chrestoetheia of Antonios Byzantios

p. 232

A Counterblast to the Chrestoetheia: the Pedalion

p. 243

The Savoir Vivre of the Twentieth Century

p. 247

PART III: THE SELF-SUBSISTENCE OF THE PERSON

5. Persons and Things in a New Era

p. 267

The Creation of the Modern World

p. 267

Toward an Anthropology of the Person

p. 277

The Body and the Person

p. 285

The Person and Relation

p. 296

Collective Identity and the Person

p. 307

Epilogue

p. 321

Index

p. 335


Product Description

Paperback:

342 Pages

Publisher:

Holy Cross Orthodox Press

ISBN:

978-1-935317-17-3

Product Dimensions:

6 x 9 x 0.8 inches

Author:

Stelios Ramfos

Publication Year:

2011

Translator:

Norman Russell
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