On the Legacies of John Zizioulas and Nicholas Afanasiev

by Anastacia Wooden

The greatest theological legacy of Metropolitan John Zizioulas is his eucharistic ecclesiology. This view was shared by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, who in his 2011 essay “Sobornost and Eucharistic Ecclesiology” points out that despite recent trends to replace or rival a eucharistic approach, “the eucharistic ecclesiology of Zizioulas continues to prevail almost everywhere” and “will prevail in Orthodox thought during the future.”

Anastacia Wooden

Anastacia Wooden teaches systematic theology at the Catholic University of America. She also studies historical and theological connections between Orthodoxy and the Second Vatican Council, as well as the history of the Union of Brest and the ecclesiology of Eastern Catholic churches. She coedited a 2-volume collection of essays, Stolen Churches or Bridges to Orthodoxy? Historical and Theological Impulses for the Dialogue Between Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches. She is an author of the monograph on the work of Nicholas Afanasiev, Recovering the Eucharistic Ecclesiology of the Early Church.

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