The anthropologies of both Metropolitan John Zizioulas and Father Dumitru Stăniloae fall within the broad personalist movement in modern Orthodox theology. This movement identifies the principal philosophical and theological characteristic of human existence in the personal mode of existence of every human, an image of the mode of existence of the Persons of the Divine[…..]
Section: Zizioulas in theological dialogue
On the Legacies of John Zizioulas and Nicholas Afanasiev
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[…..]
Blending the Personal and the Ascetical
To understand both Metropolitans John Zizioulas and Kallistos Ware, one must be reminded of the contours of contemporary Orthodox theology. After the fifteenth century and because of the Ottoman occupation, theological output in the Orthodox world almost came to a full stop; what was produced between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries has not enjoyed any[…..]