Abba: The Tradition of Orthodoxy in the West

by Andrew Louth, John Behr (Editor)

This Festschrift celebrates the joyful heart and retirement from thirty-five years of university teaching of Bishop Kallistos Ware, a person who has found his monastic "desert" among the "dreaming spires" of academia, and his "cell" in the lecture room. The Festschrift contains articles by renowned academics, which are based on historical, theological, and spiritual themes.

Genres: Christian

376 pages, Paperback

First published February 6, 2003

About the author

Andrew Louth is an Eastern Orthodox theologian and priest of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Reviews

[Stephen Borthwick · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an excellent tribute to Met. Kallistos, though as a work of theology it shows some marks of modernism and the very same tendencies towards rationalism that led Fr Sergei Bulgakov into such dangerous waters (indeed, his terribly erroneous work on the Theotokos is cited as an authority by one author in the Abba collection). The earlier chapters examining the history of Orthodox thought in the West are the real reason to read the work, though even these could benefit greatly from some greater patristic reflection and consideration of S. John of Shanghai's cautious approach to Western Orthodoxy.