Reading

Recommended Reading List

A. Historical Figures 

 Saint Athanasius 

 Anatolios, Kahlid, Athanasius :The Coherence of His Thought

Saint Gregory of Nyssa

Barnes, Michel, The Power of God: Dunamis in Gregory of Nyssa’s Trinitarian Theology, CUP 2001

Saint Cyril of Alexandria

McGuckin, John, St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Christological Controversy : Its History, Theology, and Texts

Saint Maximus the Confessor

Bathrellos, Demetrios, The Byzantine Christ, Oxford 

Cooper, Adam, The Body in St. Maximus the Confessor: Holy Flesh, Wholly Deified, Oxford 

Farrell, Joseph, Free Choice in St. Maximus the Confessor, St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press 

Maximus, The Disputation With Pyrrhus of Our Father Among the Saints Maximus the Confessor St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press

Toronen, Melchisidec, Union and Distinction in the Thought of St. Maximus the Confessor, Oxford

Saint Photius

Haugh, Richard, Photius and the Carolingians

Photios, The Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit by Patriarch Photios

Saint Gregory Palamas

Meyendorff, John,  A Study of Gregory Palamas

Meyendorff, John, Saint Gregory Palamas and Orthodox Spirituality

Papademetriou, George, An Introduction to St. Gregory Palamas

Papademetriou, George, Maimondies and Palamas on God,

Papademetriou, George, The human body according to Saint Gregory Palamas

Palamas, Gregory, The Triads

Palamas, Gregory, Dialogue Between an Orthodox and a Barlaamite

Palamas, Gregory, Treatise on the Spiritual Life

Palamas, Gregory, Mary the Mother of God: Sermons by Saint Gregory Palamas

Palamas, Gregory, The Homilies of Saint Gregory Palamas, (3 Vols.)

Palamas, Gregory, The One Hundred and Fifty Chapters, Ed. & trans. Robert E. Sinkewicz

Contemporary Theological Works

Trinitarianism

Papadakis, Aristeides, Crisis in Byzantium: The Filioque Crisis in the Patriarchate of the Gregory II of Cyprus (1283-1289) , SVS

Christology

Soteriology/Deification

Russell, Norman, The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition, Oxford 

 

Anthropology

Sacramentology 

Ecclesiaology

. Patristic Theology

Gavrilyuk, Paul L., The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought, Oxford

. Latin Medieval Theology

. Ecclesiastical History 

. Philosophy

Bradshaw, David, Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom, Oxford

Free Will & Determinism

Robert Kane, The Significance of Free Will, Oxford

Robert Kane, A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will, Oxford

Peter van Inwagen, An Essay on Free Will, Oxford

Timothy O’Connor, ed., Agents, Causes and Events, Oxford 

Gary Watson, ed., Free Will, Oxford

The Problem of Evil

Alvin Plantinga, God, Freedom and Evil 

Marilyn McCord Adams, The Problem of Evil, Oxford 

Peter van Inwagen, The Problem of Evil, Oxford 

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