PATRISTIC AND SCHOLASTIC THEOLOGY IN PERSPECTIVE

Patristic and Scholastic Theology in Perspective

Based on the Spoken Teaching of Father John Romanides

Preface

Introduction

1. Fr John Romanides and Western Theology

1. Influences on the Teaching of Fr John Romanides

2. Fr John Romanides and Empirical Hesychasm

3. From Scholastic and Protestant Theology to Patristic Theology

4. Fr John Romanides’ Criticism of Biblical Criticism

5. Final Conclusions

2. Metaphysical Philosophy

1. Definition and Principles of Philosophy

2. Classical Metaphysics

a) Plato

b) Aristotle

c) The Neoplatonists

3. The Philosophical Theology of the Ancient Heretics

3. Patristic Theology

1. ‘Interpretative Keys’

a) Trinitarian Theology

b) Christology

c) Ecclesiology

d) Eschatology

2. The Fathers and Philosophy

a) The Fathers Knew Philosophy

b) The Fathers Were not Philosophers

c) Byzantium and Philosophy

d) A Mistaken View of the Patristic Tradition

e) The Fathers against Philosophy and Metaphysics

3. The Fathers and Neoplatonism

a) Neoplatonism

b) The Difference between the Fathers and the Neoplatonists

4. Experience of the Holy Spirit as the Basis of Patristic Theology

a) Empirical Terminology

b) Empirical Methodology

c) Empirical Epistemology

d) Deluded Experience

4. Scholastic Theology

1. The Term Scholastic Theology

2. Scholastic Theologians

3. The Foundations of Scholastic Theology

a) Augustine Bishop of Hippo

i.General Comments on Augustine’s Teaching

ii.Basic Points of Augustine’s Teaching

b) The Misinterpretation of the Writings of St Dionysius
    the Areopagite in the West

c) Platonic and Aristotelian Philosophy among
    the Scholastics

d) ‘Universals’ and ‘Particulars’

e) Analogia Entis and Analogia Fidei

f) Thomas Aquinas

4. Reactions to Scholasticism and its Influence

a) Orthodox Reactions

i. The Dialogue between St Gregory Palamas and Barlaam

ii.Encounter between the Scholastic Thomas Aquinas
      and Kallistos Angelikoudis

b) Western Reactions to Scholasticism and its Influences

i. Nominalism

ii. Renaissance

iii. Reformation

iv.Enlightenment

v. German Idealism

vi.Existentialism

5. Russian Theology

1. Orthodox and Western Influences on the Russian Church
    and Theology

2. Orthodox and Western Influences on Monasticism

3. Slavophile Theology and the Views of Alexis Khomiakov

4. Contemporary Russian Theology

a) The Theological Institute of St Sergius in Paris

b) The Theory that the Patristic Tradition has been
     Surpassed

c) The Human Person, according to Lossky

d) Eucharistic Ecclesiology, according to Afanasiev

6. Neo-Hellenic Theology

1. Orthodox Hesychasm and Western Influences in the
     Orthodox East in the Fourteenth Century

2. Theology under Turkish Domination

a) Orthodox Hesychasm and Western Influences
     among the Oppressed Greeks [Romioi]

b) Theological Resistance

i. Preserving the Orthodox Tradition

ii. Preserving Monasticism and the Hesychastic Life

iii. The Contribution of the New Martyrs

3. The Influences of Western Tradition on the Founding of
    the Greek State

a) Latin and Protestant Propaganda

b) Adamantios Korais, ‘Father of Neo-Hellenism’

i. Self-Proclaimed Autocephaly of the Church of Greece

ii. The Theological Schools

iii. Religious Life

7. Romans and Franks

1. The Roman Empire

2. ‘The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation’

a) Barbarian Invasions and Conquests

b) The Feudal System

c) Roman Resistance and Uprisings

d) Plan for Full Independence of the Western Part of
      the Roman Empire

e) Falsification of History and Propaganda

3. The French and Greek Revolutions

4. The Founding of the Greek State

5. Modern Europe

Final Words