The Father's Eternal Freedom
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The Father's Eternal Freedom

The Personalist Trinitarian Ontology of John Zizioulas

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The Father's Eternal Freedom

The Personalist Trinitarian Ontology of John Zizioulas

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John Zizioulas is renowned for his controversial reflection on the ontological freedom as the cause and cipher of God's being, which also has important implications for anthropology, ecclesiology and ecumenical dialogue. This view is bound up with a personalist conception of the Trinity, recognised in the teaching of the Greek Church Fathers, in which the person represents the primary ontological category. In particular, Zizioulas shows how, by virtue of the Father, personhood coincides with absolute freedom. In The Father's Eternal Freedom, Dario Chiapetti explores this ontology. Taking into account Zizioulas' epistemological principles, his patristic reading and his theological development, the author systematically presents Zizioulas' thesis, verifying its conformity to dogma and its internal coherence. Chiapetti analyses how Zizioulas' proposal brings back to the centre of systematic theology the teaching of the Greek Fathers, especially the Cappadocians, and the apophatic horizon of dogmatic reflection. Such reflection pushes the discourse on God to its maximum degree, identifying and bringing out, rather than resolving or attenuating, the aporetic terms that structure it.

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Publisher
James Clarke & Co
Year
2022
ISBN
9780227177761
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Philosophy of Religion

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Advert Page
  3. Book Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. Note on Citations
  10. Abbreviations
  11. Introduction: General Aspects of the Figure and Thought of Zizioulas
  12. Part 1. Zizioulas’ Reading of the Fathers: The Notion of Person and the Doctrine of the Monarchy of the Father
  13. Part 2. Zizioulas’ Theological Development: The Father, Free Cause of Being as Personhood-Freedom
  14. Concluding Remarks: Zizioulas’ Bold Exercise in Theological Reflection
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. Back Cover