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The One and the Three explores parallels between Byzantine and early Irish monastic traditions, finding in both a markedly trinitarian theology founded on God's contemplation and ascetic experience. Chrysostom Koutloumousianos refutes modern theological theses that affect ecclesiology, and contrasts current schools of theological thought with patristic theology and anthropology, in order to approach the meaning and reality of unity and otherness within the Triadic Monad and the cosmos. He explores such topics as the connection between nature and person, the esoteric dimension of the Self, the relation and dialectic of impersonal institutions and personal charisma, and perennial monastic virtues as ways to unity in diversity. Contents 6 Foreword 8 Prologue 11 Abbreviations 17 Part I: Approaching the Trinitarian Monad 18 One: The Quest for a Personalistic Ontology 19 Two: Monarchy and Trinity in the Greek and Irish Fathers 25 Three: Person and Grace 64 Part II: Subjectivity and Catholicity: The Monastic Paradigm 91 One: The Individual and the Community 92 Two: Institution and Charisma 151 Concluding remarks 177 Last Prologue 179 Notes 190 Bibliography 240 A fertile study of convergences in early monastic and ascetic thought in Ireland and Byzantine Greece, revealing theological insights into ecclesiology and the nature of the Trinity. Approaching The Trinitarian Monad -- Subjectivity And Catholicity : The Monastic Paradigm. By Chrystostom Koutloumousianos.