Fundamentalism or Tradition: Christianity after Secularism (Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought)
Brand: Fordham University Press
Categories: Books, History, World



Dimensions: 6 x 0.65 x 9 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0823285782
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Print length: 272 pages
Publication date: November 5, 2019
ISBN-13: 978-0823285785
Edition: 1st
Part of series: Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
subtitle: 1st Edition
author: Aristotle Papanikolaou George E. Demacopoulos R. Scott Appleby Nikolaos Asproulis Brandon Gallaher Paul J. Griffiths Vigen Guroian Dellas Oliver Herbel Edith M. Humphrey Slavica Jakelić Nadieszda Kizenko Wendy Mayer Brenna Moore Graham Ward Darlene Fozard Weaver
review: Editorial Reviews Review A rich collection of essays examining the complex relation between tradition, secularization and fundamentalism within Orthodox and Catholic Christianity. It illuminates the varied forms of renewal and reformulation of Orthodox Christian thought in our contemporary global age." ---José Casanova, Georgetown University Christian tradition eludes precise definitions and comprehensive formulations for the simple reason that it is a living thing, encompassing every dimension of spiritual life and aspiration. Religious fundamentalism emerges only when tradition has begun to die or has suffered assault. The secular age is a crisis for Christian communities not merely because it entails a cultural rejection of Christian tradition, but because it corrupts the tradition from within with the beguiling but deeply destructive “fundamentalist option.” The essays in this collection explore the crisis with rare depth and insight. ---David Hart Fundamentalism or Tradition is a valuable piece of scholarship, which has the potential to substantially contribute to the contemporary study of the phenomena of modernization and secularization, including various responses to those processes―notably the phenomenon of fundamentalism. ---Davor Džalto, Sankt Ignatios Academy, Stockholm School of Theology Review A rich collection of essays examining the complex relation between tradition, secularization and fundamentalism within Orthodox and Catholic Christianity. It illuminates the varied forms of renewal and reformulation of Orthodox Christian thought in our contemporary global age." ---José Casanova, Georgetown University, Christian tradition eludes precise definitions and comprehensive formulations for the simple reason that it is a living thing, encompassing every dimension of spiritual life and aspiration. Religious fundamentalism emerges only when tradition has begun to die or has suffered assault. The secular age is a crisis for Christian communities not merely because it entails a cultural rejection of Christian tradition, but because it corrupts the tradition from within with the beguiling but deeply destructive “fundamentalist option.” The essays in this collection explore the crisis with rare depth and insight. ---David Hart, Fundamentalism or Tradition is a valuable piece of scholarship, which has the potential to substantially contribute to the contemporary study of the phenomena of modernization and secularization, including various responses to those processes―notably the phenomenon of fundamentalism. ---Davor Džalto, Sankt Ignatios Academy, Stockholm School of Theology, About the Author Aristotle Papanikolaou is Professor of Theology, the Archbishop Demetrios Chair of Orthodox Theology and Culture, and the Co-Director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University. He is also Senior Fellow at the Emory University Center for the Study of Law and Religion. He is the author of Being with God: Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine-Human Communion , and The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy . George E. Demacopoulos is Fr. John Meyendorff & Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Christian Studies and Professor of Theology at Fordham University. He is the author of Colonizing Christianity: Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade , and Gregory the Great: Ascetic, Pastor, and First Man of Rome. R. Scott Appleby is the Marilyn Keough Dean of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs. He also serves as lead editor of the Oxford University Press series “Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding.” Nikolaos Asproulis is deputy director of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies (Volos, Greece) and Lecturer at the Hellenic Open University (Patras, Greece). Brandon Gallaher is senior lecturer of systematic and comparative theology at the University of Exeter. He is also a deacon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and served at the Eastern Orthodox Holy and Great Council as a Theological Subject Expert in the Ecumenical Patriarchate Press Office (Crete, 2016). Read more