Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction
The Concept of 'Eastern Christianity'
The Structure of the Book
Reference
Part I: Metaphilosophy
Chapter 2: St Ephrem and the Pursuit of Wisdom
Ephrem and Late Antique Greek Philosophy: Reorienting the Question
Previous Approaches: Ephrem's Way of Thinking
Ephrem, Hadot, and Julian the Apostate
The Pursuit of Wisdom as an Ephremian Ideal
Wisdom the Purpose of Human Existence
Reading the Book of Nature and Confronting Idolatry
Asceticism and the Pursuit of Wisdom

Sensation, Body, Soul, and Media in Ephrem's Ideal
Ephrem on Soul, Body, and Sensation
McLuhan on Media
Two McLuhanesque Themes and Ephremian Echoes
The Primacy of the Percept over Concept in Religious Experience
Wisdom and the Artist
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: The Emergence of the Scholastic Attitude Towards Philosophy in Greek Patristic Thought
References
Part II: Philosophical Theology and Metaphysics
Chapter 4: What We Can and Cannot Say: An Apophatic Response to Atheism
Contemporary Arguments for the Nonexistence of God

Categorising Contemporary Arguments for Atheism
The Argument from Incompossibility
The Evidential Argument from Evil
The Argument from Divine Hiddenness
A Concise Formulation of the Contemporary Argument for Atheism
The Contemporary Argument for Atheism (CAA)
Apophatic Theism and the Doctrine of Divine Ineffability
Eastern Christian Proponents of Apophatic Theism
Making Sense of Eastern Christian Accounts of Divine Ineffability
Negative Properties
Ontologically Infinity, Beyond-Beingness, and Beyond-Essentiality
An Argument for Divine Ineffability

Argument for Divine Ineffability (ADI)
An Apophatic Response to Atheism
The Contemporary Argument for Atheism (CAA)
Responding to Objections
Another Argument for Atheism
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Divine Impassibility in Eastern Patristic Thought: Origen of Alexandria and Gregory Thaumaturgus
Understanding Impassibility
Origen of Alexandria and God's Passio Caritatis
Gregory of Neocaesarea and God's Impassible Suffering
Common Themes and 'Energetic Kenoticism'
References
Chapter 6: Gregory of Nyssa on the Individuation of Actions and Events

Introduction
Actions and Events: The Current Debate
Recent History of the Metaphysics of Actions and Events
Chisholm
Kim and Davidson
Importance for Inseparable Operations
Lingering Questions About the Davidsonian View
Relevance to the Trinity and Inseparable Operations
Gregory's Account
The Semantics of "god"
Counting
Hypostases, Ousiai, and Idiomata
Application to "Practices" and Energeiai
Application to the Current Debate and Conclusion
References
Part III: Epistemology and Philosophy of Language