Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth : Studies in Honour of Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia

Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia, formerly Timothy Ware, is unquestionably the best-known Orthodox theologian in the Western world today. The papers collected in this volume are designed to demonstrate the spread of his own interests and concerns and therefore range from the Desert Fathers to modern church dialogue, from patristics to church music, from the Philokalia to human «priesthood». In the course of a long career he has touched the lives of many people and there is a section of tributes concerned with his role as spiritual father, teacher, writer, pastor, theologian, and monk. In the epilogue the Metropolitan himself reflects on his many years as a pilgrim to Mount Athos. Most of the papers included in this volume were delivered at a conference convened by the Friends of Mount Athos at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, in 2015 in honour of Metropolitan Kallistos’s eightieth birthday. Contents Acknowledgements Message from His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Address by His Eminence Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain Introduction • Andreas Andreopoulos and Graham Speak Part 1: Tributes to Metropolitan Kallistos 1 The Spiritual Father • Frances Jennings 2 The Monk • Nikolai Sakharov 3 The Pastor and Bishop • Stephen Platt 4 The Teacher • Marcus Plested 5 The Translator and Writer • † Ephrem Lash 6 The Theologian • Andrew Louth 7 An English Orthodox Bishop? • Andreas Andreopoulos Part 2: Papers in Honour of Metropolitan Kallistos 8 An Early Syriac Exposition of the Holy Mysteries • Sebastian Brock 9 ‘Nothing is Greater than Divine Love’: Evagrios of Pontos, St Maximos the Confessor, and the Philokalia • Maximos Constas 10 St Symeon the New Theologian and the Studite Monastic Tradition • Hilarion Alfeyev 11 On the Annunciation: Manganeios Prodromos, no. 120 • Elizabeth Jeffreys 12 Philokalia: A Vocabulary for Our Time • John Chryssavgis 13 The Desert, Hesychia, and Ascesis: Then and Now • Nikolaos Hatzinikolaou 14 Patristic Texts as Icons • John Behr 15 Deification, Hypostatization, and Kenosis • Rowan Williams 16 Priest of Creation or Cosmic Liturgy? • Elizabeth Theokritoff 17 C. S. Lewis and Church Music • Dimitri Conomos Epilogue 18 Fifty-Four Years as an Athonite Pilgrim • Kallistos Ware Notes on Contributors Index Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Message from His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew -- Address by His Eminence Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain -- Introduction -- Part 1: Tributes to Metropolitan Kallistos -- 1"The Spiritual Father -- 2"The Monk -- 3"The Pastor and Bishop -- 4"The Teacher -- 5"The Translator and Writer -- 6"The Theologian -- 7"An English Orthodox Bishop? -- Part 2: Papers in Honour of Metropolitan Kallistos -- 8"An Early Syriac Exposition of the Holy Mysteries -- 9"'Nothing is Greater than Divine Love': Evagrios of Pontos, St Maximos the Confessor, and the Philokalia -- 10"St Symeon the New Theologian and the Studite Monastic Tradition -- 11"On the Annunciation: Manganeios Prodromos, no. 120 -- 12"Philokalia: A Vocabulary for Our Time -- 13"The Desert, Hesychia, and Ascesis: Then and Now -- 14"Patristic Texts as Icons -- 15"Deification, Hypostatization, and Kenosis -- 16"Priest of Creation or Cosmic Liturgy? -- 17"C. S. Lewis and Church Music -- Epilogue -- 18"Fifty-Four Years as an Athonite Pilgrim -- Notes on Contributors -- Index Andreas Andreopoulos And Graham Speake, (eds). Most Of The Papers Included In This Volume Were First Delivered At A Symposium Which Was Held By The Friends Of Mount Athos In Honour Of Metropolitan Kallstos's Eightieth Birthday At Madingley Hall, Cambridge, In February 2015. -- Acknowledgements. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia is unquestionably the best-known Orthodox theologian in the Western world today. This work is designed to demonstrate the spread of his own interests and concerns and range from the Desert Fathers to modern church dialogue, from patristics to church music, from the Philokalia to human 'priesthood'.