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Contents
Prefatory Letter by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Foreword by Bill McKibben
Introduction: "The Sweetness of Heaven Overflows onto the Earth": Orthodox Christianity and Environmental Thought
John Chryssavgis and Bruce V. Foltz
I. "Knowledge United to God": Environment, Nature, and Creation in Patristic Thought
The Logoi of Beings in Greek Patristic Thought
David Bradshaw
Hierarchy and Love in St. Dionysius the Areopagite
Eric D. Perl
The Beauty of the World and Its Significance in St. Gregory the Theologian
John Anthony McGuckin
Natural Contemplation in St. Maximus the Confessor and St. Isaac the Syrian
Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen)
Man and Cosmos in St. Maximus the Confessor
Andrew Louth
II. "The Heart That Receives": Environment, Nature, and Creation In Twentieth-Century Orthodox Thought
Ecology, Theology, and the World
Savas Agouridis
Through Creation to the Creator
Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia
Creation as Communion in Contemporary Orthodox Theology
Aristotle Papanikolaou
The Theological-Ethical Contributions of Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov) to Environmental Issues
Perry T. Hamalis
The Cosmology of the Eucharist
George Theokritoff
"A 'Tradition' That Never Existed": Orthodox Christianity and the Failure of Environmental History
Jurretta Jordan Heckscher
A New Heaven and a New Earth: Orthodox Christian Insights from Theology, Spirituality, and the Sacraments
John Chryssavgis
Proprietors or Priests of Creation?
Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon
III. "Love Comes from Meeting God": Historical, Theological, and Philosophical Dimensions Sedimentation of Meaning in the Concepts of Nature and the Environment
James Carey
Existential versus Regulative Approaches: The Environmental Issue as an Existential and Not a Canonical Problem
Christos Yannaras
Nature and Creation: A Comment on the Environmental Problem from a Philosophical and Theological Standpoint
Nikos Nissiotis
Physis and Ktisis: Two Different Ways of Thinking of the World
John Panteleimon Manoussakis
Human Image, World Image: The Renewal of Sacred Cosmology
Philip Sherrard
Environment and Security: Toward a Systemic Crisis of Humanity?
Costa Carras
Church Walls and Wilderness Boundaries: Defining the Spaces of Sanctuary
L. Michael Harrington
Orthodoxy and Ecopoetics: The Green World in the Desert Sea
Alfred K. Siewers
Perspectives on Orthodoxy, Evolution, and Ecology
Gayle E. Woloschak
Ecology, Morality, and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century: The Earth in the Hands of the Sons of Noah
H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
IV. "Sweetness Overflowing onto the Earth": Insights from Orthodox Spirituality
The Fragile Surround
Scott Cairns
Liturgy, Cosmic Worship, and Christian Cosmology
Elizabeth Theokritoff
"All Creation Rejoices in You": Creation in the Liturgies for the Feasts of the Theotokos
Christina M. Gschwandtner
Traces of Divine Fragrance, Droplets of Divine Love: On the Beauty of Visible Creation
Bruce V. Foltz
Natural and Supernatural Revelation in Early Irish and Greek Monastic Thought: A Comparative Approach
Chrysostomos Koutloumousianos
Ecology and Monasticism
Archimandrite Vasileios
The Prophetic Charisma in Pastoral Theology: Asceticism, Fasting, and the Ecological Crisis
Anestis Keselopoulos
The Spirit of God Moved upon the Face of the Waters: Orthodox Holiness and the Natural World
Donald Sheehan
Appendixes
A. Vespers for the Environment
Translated by Archimandrite Ephrem (Lash)
B. Environment, Nature, and Creation in Orthodox Thought: A Bibliography of Texts in English
Compiled by John Chryssavgis and Bruce V. Foltz
C. Glossary
Compiled by Nicholas R. Anton
Notes
On the Contributors
Index.