Some Aspects of Contemporary Greek Orthodox Thought

by Frank Gavin

Publisher:

Morehouse Publishing

, 1923

Overview

Part of the Western Theological Seminary Hale Lecture series—established by Bishop Charles Reuben Hale to discuss a handful of religious subjects, including the history of Eastern Churches—this text surveys the thought of important nineteenth-century Greek Orthodox theologians. Scholar and Episcopal priest Frank Gavin makes an adept guide, offering valuable information without assuming a wealth of background knowledge.

Introducing Protestants to writers such as Philippos Papadopoulos, the Archimandrite Chrysostom Papadopoulos, Zekos Rhôsse, Constantine Dyobouniotes, I.E. Mesolora, Antoniades, and Chrestos Androutsos, Gavin seeks to combat the notion that Greek Orthodox thought is static and insulated. He notes, that “if the present lectures serve but to introduce such men to American Churchmen they will not have been entirely in vain. If they serve to discount the venerable and deeply-rooted calumny that Orthodoxy is ‘intellectually sterile’, barren in the results of modern scholarship and theological research . . . and ‘not alive to the problems of the day,’ their purpose will have been fulfilled.” Containing the 1922 lectures, this volume provides valuable insight into early nineteenth-century Orthodox scholarship and the growing movement toward promoting meaningful conversations and understanding across denominational lines.

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Key Features

• Surveys the writings of modern Orthodox theologians
• Collects Frank Gavin’s 1922 Hale Lectures
• Introduces essential tenets of modern Orthodox thought

Contents

• Prolegomena
• The Doctrine of God
• Sin and Salvation
• The Doctrine of Grace and of the Church
• The Doctrine of the Sacraments
• The Doctrine of the Sacraments (cont.) and of the Last Things
• Index

Product Details

• Title: Some Aspects of Contemporary Greek Orthodox Thought
• Author: Frank Gavin
• Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
• Publication Date: 1923
• Pages: 474
• Christian Group: Orthodox
• Resource Type: Topical
• Topic: Theology

About Frank Gavin

Frank Stanton Burns Gavin (1890–1938) was an Episcopal priest and theology professor. Gavin studied at Columbia University, General Theological Seminary, Hebrew Union College, and Harvard University, earning MA, PhD, STB, BHL, STM, and ThD degrees. He was ordained a priest in 1915 and entered the novitiate of the Society of St. John the Evangelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but never took permanent vows. He taught New Testament at Nashotah House and ecclesiastical history at General Theological Seminary. He wrote several books including Aphraates and the Jews: A Study of the Controversial Homilies of the Persian Sage in Their Relation to Jewish Thought, The Ideas of the Old Testament, and The Jewish Antecedents of the Christian Sacraments.