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The Use of Experience in Contemporary Orthodox Theology

by Aristotle Papanikolaou

Over the past five or so decades, theology in the West has experienced a shift. In this shift, experience has become one of the main criteria for assessing what counts as true knowledge of God. It is not, however, just any kind of experience but the experience of the marginalized, which has taken on many forms…

Aristotle Papanikolaou

A professor of theology and the Archbishop Demetrios Chair in Orthodox Theology and Culture at Fordham University. He is co-director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham and a senior fellow at the Emory University Center for the Study of Law and Religion. He is the author of numerous books, among them Orthodox Constructions of the West, The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy, and Being with God: Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine-Human Communion.

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