Letters and essays document the founding traditions, beliefs, and practices of the early church.

Andrew Louth examines all the traditions on which Denys' work draws: the Fourth Century Greek theologians, pagan philosophy and Syrian Christian thought. The corpus of Denys the Areopagite appeared in the sixth century and have since been deeply influential on Christian thinking both in East and West. Who their author was remains a mystery but in this book Professor Louth documents and comments on his compelling vision of the beauty of God's world and his revelation, together with his profound awareness of the ultimate mystery of the unknowable God who utterly transcends all being. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: From the Desert Fathers to T. S. Eliot, the desert has occupied a special place in the Christian tradition. The Wilderness of God is a classic exploration of desert spirituality by one of Europe's most distinguished theologians, showing that the desert can be experienced as a place of real inspiration as well as of torture and desolation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Outlines Heidegger's analysis of the fate of western metaphysics. The author's response is largely to accept Heidegger's analysis, but to argue that, although it applies to the western tradition of what Heidegger calls 'onto theology', it does not take account of the Orthodox tradition of apophatic theology.

Product Description: A lively and perceptive account of the lives, writings and enduring intellectual legacies of the great Orthodox theologians of the past 250 years. This book explores and explains the enduring influence of some of the world's greatest modern theologians...read more