Love, marriage and family in the Eastern Orthodox tradition
By: edited by Theodore Grey Dedon & Sergey Trostyanskiy
Contributors: Sophia Institute (New York, N.Y.)
Series: The Sophia Institute studies in Orthodox theology -- vol. 7; Sophia Institute studies in Orthodox theology -- v. 7.
Publisher: Theotokos Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780983105435
Subjects: Marriage; Congresses; Orthodox Eastern Church; Families; Love; Doctrines
Notes: Cover title.

Papers presented at the conference Love, Marriage and Family in Eastern Orthodox Perspective, held by the Sophia Institute at Union Theological Seminary, New York, Dec. 7, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The mystery of marriage : an Christian Orthodox reflection / John Anthony McGuckin; title: The sacrament of love : Paul Evdokimov's vision of marriage, love and vocation / Michael PLekon; title: Out of dreams and angels : love, marriage, and family in the New Testament / Jeffrey B. Pettis; title: The sacrament of marriage and union with god / Bruce Beck; title: Marriage and family : traditional values, modern realities / Theodor Damian; title: Sexual healing : desire and pleasure in the thought of St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Gregory of Nyssa / David J. Dunn; title: Uncovering desire : explorations in eros, aggression and the question of theosis in marriage / Pia Chaudhari; title: Contextuality and normality : Orthodox visions of human sexuality and marriage / Drew Maxwell; title: Marriage and the eucharist : from unity to schizophrenia / Fr. Philip Zymaris; title: Imagining the true family in St. Gregory of Nazianzen's Oration 14 / Kate McCray; title: Chrysostom's pedagogy of Christian fatherhood reorienting the Christian family in a non-Christian society / Alexander Blaze Miller; title: What makes a society? : an Orthodox perspective on asceticism, marriage, the family, and society / Dylan Pahman; title: Anna Komnene's Alexiad : legacy from the good daughter (kale thugater) / Victoria K. McCarty; title: 'Set ye in order, charity in me' : Origen's writings on the Song of songs / Clio Pavlantos; title: Philanthropia as God's loving-kindness : Origen of Alexandria and his theology of love / Theodore Grey Dedon; title: The reflexivity of love in Fakhruddin ʻIraqi's Divine flashes and St. Symeon the New Theologian's Hymns of divine eros / Zachary Ugolnik; title: The time has come : the why and the how of bringing change to postpartum rites of the Orthodox Church / Carrie Frederick Frost; title: Psalm 112:5-9 and alternative family arrangements; title: 'Turning toward' as a pastoral theology of marriage / Philip Mamalakis; title: Embracing our humanity : a christological lens on the family / Jennifer Haddad Mosher; title: Care-giving as an expression of familial love / Ann Marie Gidus-Mecera; title: Toward a better understanding of the clergy couple / Kerry Pappas; title: The theology of children : insight from the Old and the New Testament / Vicki Petrakis; title: A life of ideal beauty : St. Gregory of Nyssa and the Life of Macrina / Antonia Atanassova; title: Book reviews / Theodore Grey Dedon ... [et al.].