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‘Communion and otherness: how can these be reconciled?' In this wide-ranging study, the distinguished Orthodox theologian, Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon, seeks to answer that question. In his celebrated book, Being as Communion (1985), he emphasised the importance of communion for life and for unity. In this important companion volume he now explores the complementary fact that communion is the basis for true otherness and identity.
With a constant awareness of the deepest existential questions of today, Metropolitan John probes the Christian tradition and highlights the existential concerns that already underlay the writings of the Greek fathers and the definitions of the early ecumenical councils. In a vigorous and challenging way, he defends the freedom to be other as an intrinsic characteristic of personhood, fulfilled only in communion.
After a major opening chapter on the ontology of otherness, written specially for this volume, the theme is systematically developed with reference to the Trinity, Christology, anthropology and ecclesiology. Another new chapter defends the idea that the Father is cause of the Trinity, as taught by the Cappadocian fathers, and replies to criticisms of this view. The final chapter responds to the customary separation of ecclesiology from mysticism and strongly favours a mystical understanding of the body of Christ as a whole. Other papers, previously published but some not easily obtainable, are all revised for their inclusion here.
This is a further contribution to dialogue on some of the most vital issues for theology and the Church from one of the leading figures in modern ecumenism.
- Sales Rank: #248102 in Books
- Published on: 2007-01-01
- Released on: 2007-01-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.21" h x .69" w x 6.14" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 330 pages
Review
"All who have benefitted from the influential insights of Being as Communion will be eager to read this new sequel, addressing the critical issue of the balance between relationality and difference in ontological thought." (Rev. John Polkinghorne)
"Metropolitan John Zizioulas is generally recognised as the most brilliant and creative theologian in the Orthodox Church today. The publication of a new book from his pen, supplementing his earlier master-work Being as Communion, is a major event, of the greatest interest to Western Christians as well as Orthodox. By exploring the theme of 'Otherness', he has developed in an original and illuminating way what he said in his earlier writings about Communion as the basis for personhood and church life. Here is a voice that greatly needs to be heard."
'On page after page of this outstanding book, our assumptions are challenged and our minds led back to the most deeply significant aspects of Christian faith, and to the conceptual and practical map drawn not only in Scripture but in the Greek Fathers, including the fathers of the desert and their teaching on practice and prayer. Few will read this book without sensing that they have been invited to rediscover Christianity itself in its richest traditional form.' (Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury)
'I'm now reading what I take to be the best book written by an Orthodox theologian in the last 20 years...John Zizioulas' Communion and Otherness is a masterpiece that is not only beautifully Eastern, but philosophically erudite and which engages meaningfully with Western theology. Herein Zizioulas further develops, refines, and defends his relational ontology of personhood that he first put forth in Being as Communion.'
Halden, Inhabitatio Dei Website Review (Halden, Inhabitatio Dei Website Review)
'John Zizioulas is always a challenging, but rewarding read. His theology of personhood and the implications it has for the doctrine of the Trinity, the church, the human being are difficult to match and his theology will continue to be one that others find helpful. He has done us a great service in drawing Western theology back to the Cappadocian Fathers. Communion and Otherness will surely join Being as Communion as a much read and much quoted book.'Andy Goodliff (Andy Goodliff)
"John Zizioulas, one of the most prominent contemporary Orthodox theologians, continues to develop his understanding of the relation between personhood and communion in eight essays, three published here for the first time. His thesis is that perfect union does not destroy but rather affirms otherness in the triune God, in the relationship between God and human persons and among the members of the Church...A 'must have' for personal and institutional libraries, this book should be used primarily in graduate studies. Zizioulas demonstrates that he is among the first-ranked contemporary theologians and that Orthodox theology is at a time of development influenced by its return to biblical, patristic, and liturgical sources, in a constructive encounter with other Christian theologies, contemporary philosophy, and modern society." -Radu Bordeianu, Horizons, Vol. 34, No. 2, Fall 2007
(Radu Bordeianu)
'Communion and Otherness is the product of a lifetime's work, the synthesis of Metropolitan John's thought...a book long awaited - and I believe rightly so - from a theologian who some consider to be a contemporary Church Father.'Liviu Barbu, King's College London, Heythrop Journal (Heythrop Journal)
"...this is not an easy read, but very much worth the effort...What I love most about this book is its sense of existence as God's gift to us and to all of creation, a gift Zizioulas places firmly in a eucharistic context. Because existence is a gift, he argues, atheism can be seen as a form of ingratitude. Faith means being grateful to every other being and finally to God himself, the ultimate Other and 'the author of all otherness. This kind of faith offers no security of rational conviction. The only certainty it offers lies in the love of the Other. The only proof of God's existence is his love-demonstrated by our very being, in otherness and communion. We are loved, therefore he exists.'"—— John Garvey, Commonweal, April 11, 2008 (John Garvey)
"...This volume, along with Being as Communion, provides one of the most insightful, contemporary and accessible accounts of Orthodoxy available." — Thomas Finger, Christian Century, May 20, 2008 (Thomas Finger)
"This work is highly recommended for the upper level student, professor, and churchman or churchwoman seeking a deeper understanding of these important topics. Truly a challenging work." —Catholic Library World (Cecil R. White)
"As with most creative theological proposals, readers likely will find much with which to disagree. Yet, if one takes the time to engage and not simply dismiss, this volume will pay handsome dividends...Those interested in ecclesial theology will find in this volume much worth contemplating and an able dialogue partner."Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology
"All who have benefitted from the influential insights of Being as Communion will be eager to read this new sequel, addressing the critical issue of the balance between relationality and difference in ontological thought." (Sanford Lakoff)
"Metropolitan John Zizioulas is generally recognised as the most brilliant and creative theologian in the Orthodox Church today. The publication of a new book from his pen, supplementing his earlier master-work Being as Communion, is a major event, of the greatest interest to Western Christians as well as Orthodox. By exploring the theme of 'Otherness’, he has developed in an original and illuminating way what he said in his earlier writings about Communion as the basis for personhood and church life. Here is a voice that greatly needs to be heard."
'On page after page of this outstanding book, our assumptions are challenged and our minds led back to the most deeply significant aspects of Christian faith, and to the conceptual and practical map drawn not only in Scripture but in the Greek Fathers, including the fathers of the desert and their teaching on practice and prayer. Few will read this book without sensing that they have been invited to rediscover Christianity itself in its richest traditional form.' (Sanford Lakoff)
'I’m now reading what I take to be the best book written by an Orthodox theologian in the last 20 years…John Zizioulas’ Communion and Otherness is a masterpiece that is not only beautifully Eastern, but philosophically erudite and which engages meaningfully with Western theology. Herein Zizioulas further develops, refines, and defends his relational ontology of personhood that he first put forth in Being as Communion.'
Halden, Inhabitatio Dei Website Review (Sanford Lakoff)
'John Zizioulas is always a challenging, but rewarding read. His theology of personhood and the implications it has for the doctrine of the Trinity, the church, the human being are difficult to match and his theology will continue to be one that others find helpful. He has done us a great service in drawing Western theology back to the Cappadocian Fathers. Communion and Otherness will surely join Being as Communion as a much read and much quoted book.'Andy Goodliff (Sanford Lakoff)
"John Zizioulas, one of the most prominent contemporary Orthodox theologians, continues to develop his understanding of the relation between personhood and communion in eight essays, three published here for the first time. His thesis is that perfect union does not destroy but rather affirms otherness in the triune God, in the relationship between God and human persons and among the members of the Church...A 'must have' for personal and institutional libraries, this book should be used primarily in graduate studies. Zizioulas demonstrates that he is among the first-ranked contemporary theologians and that Orthodox theology is at a time of development influenced by its return to biblical, patristic, and liturgical sources, in a constructive encounter with other Christian theologies, contemporary philosophy, and modern society." -Radu Bordeianu, Horizons, Vol. 34, No. 2, Fall 2007
(Sanford Lakoff)
"…this is not an easy read, but very much worth the effort…What I love most about this book is its sense of existence as God's gift to us and to all of creation, a gift Zizioulas places firmly in a eucharistic context. Because existence is a gift, he argues, atheism can be seen as a form of ingratitude. Faith means being grateful to every other being and finally to God himself, the ultimate Other and 'the author of all otherness. This kind of faith offers no security of rational conviction. The only certainty it offers lies in the love of the Other. The only proof of God's existence is his love-demonstrated by our very being, in otherness and communion. We are loved, therefore he exists.’"—— John Garvey, Commonweal, April 11, 2008 (Sanford Lakoff)
“…This volume, along with Being as Communion, provides one of the most insightful, contemporary and accessible accounts of Orthodoxy available.” — Thomas Finger, Christian Century, May 20, 2008 (Sanford Lakoff)
“This work is highly recommended for the upper level student, professor, and churchman or churchwoman seeking a deeper understanding of these important topics. Truly a challenging work.” –Catholic Library World (Sanford Lakoff)
"As with most creative theological proposals, readers likely will find much with which to disagree. Yet, if one takes the time to engage and not simply dismiss, this volume will pay handsome dividends…Those interested in ecclesial theology will find in this volume much worth contemplating and an able dialogue partner."Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology
About the Author
John D.Zizioulas, Metropolitan of Pergamon, was previously Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Glasgow and Visiting Professor at King's College, London. He is the author of Communion and Otherness (2006), and has been a major Orthodox contributor to modern ecumenical discussion. Paul McPartlan is Carl J. Peter Professor of Systematic Theology and Ecumenism at the Catholic University of America.
The Rt. Hon. and Most Reverend Rowan Williams is Archbishop of Canterbury. He was formerly Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford and Archbishop of Wales.
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
A great follow-up
By ecclesial hypostasis
Communion and Otherness is the follow-up volume to Zizoulas' earlier work Being as Communion. BAC argued for the basis of genuine unity between God, people and in the church on the basis of a personalist ontology where unity is not in the 'substance' of God or shared beliefs but in the seeking of a unique person to make their personhood real by communion in love. In CAO, he takes on the task of describing how that unity is balanced by a genuine 'otherness' in relationships, that only a true person can allow for 'difference' and 'distance' from another without 'division'. This also has implications for our relation to the environment, as an 'other' for whom we must care. Zizioulas is strongly invested in a Cappadocian formulation of the Father as the monarch and cause of the Trinity, which I am still not sure that I accept, but he does make a convincing case for the need for a personal basis to all reality, both within and without the Trinity. He also takes time to rebut criticisms that his theological framework is really existentialism in Orthodox dress. I believe that Zizioulas has the best response that I have seen to the challenge of modern atheism. A thoroughly practical and illuminating work of theological reflection, I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Another classic from Zizioulas
By Aquinas
Metropolitan John Zizioulas is an important person in the Orthodox world, heading up at the moment the Orthodox delegation meeting with the Roman delegation in Cyprus to discuss the role of the Pope in the first millennium of Christianity. Prior to this book, he was known for his magnum opus: "Being and Communion". This work is a complementary volume emphasising the difference between the persons that exists right at the heart of the Trinity. I think what is most fascinating about this book is that it brings home to us the extraordinary wisdom of the Fathers, in this case, the Cappadocian Fathers. In he West, brought up on Newman's development of doctrine, we are inclined to assume sometimes that our understanding of the Truth has been enhanced by the passing of time. If anything, this book shows that this may in some cases be simply untrue. Thus, one comes away with a degree of astonishment of the Cappadocian Fathers' grasp of the hidden mystery of the Trinity.
Father as Monarchia
I was particularly taken by the discussion on the Father as Monarchia of the Trinity, a concept which Zizioulas argues hard for. He takes the view that in the West since Augustine, the One "substance"of God has been given two important a place, as if the "substance" somehow precedes the persons of the Trinity. My knowledge is insufficient to agree or to disagree with him on this point.
Communion generating otherness
Whereas, "Being as Communion" was all about not surprising God as communion, here we have a difference take, namely: the absoluteness of otherness: "The Father, Son and the Spirit are absolutely different" and "Communion does not threaten otherness: it generates it".
Death and Chalcedon
In the West, particularly with John Paul II's theology of the body an increasing positive assessment of sexual procreation has developed but Zizioulas reminds us of the close connection between death and procreation; it is not particular human beings that live on, but only the human genus and that only occurs via procreation. He also gives Adam's rejection of God an unusual spin: "The rejection of God by Adam signified the rejection of otherness as constitutive of being. This gave rise to the Self as having ontological priority over the Other. It also meant that otherness and communion could not ultimately coincide". Further, I was pleased to see how he takes death seriously; increasingly in the West there has been a kind of tendency to celebrate funeral masses as if they were precisely "celebration ", a kind of denial of the existential horror of death. Zizioulas is down to earth and real: "Death is the worst enemy of otherness. No human being can really ignore it".
He gives this assessment in an important analysis of the Council of Chalcedon, showing that the hypostatic union and Christ maintains "otherness" as primordial, Christ assumes human nature but there is no mingling with his divine nature; thus otherness is preserved. Further the theosis which we undergo on earth and which will be completed in heaven does not threaten our otherness.
The One and the Many
I found his analysis of the ancient conundrum of the One and the Many fascinating. The "One of platonic and Greek ontology does not precede the "Many" but is itself "One " of the "Many"and "requires the "many" from the very start in order to exist". For Zizioulas, "nature" corresponds to the "One" and "Personhood" corresponds to the" Many". In Good, Oneness and Personhood are in unity but, for fallen humanity, nature precedes the person. In humanity, we have this conflict between otherness and nature, a conflict which does not exist in God. Sometimes however I think Zizioulas goes too far, as he does when he says: "The Other must always have priority, even if this means going against one's own conscience". (page 91). In the west, conscience is where the heart meets God - conscience is, as it were, the very voice of God, a voice which should not be rejected.
The primacy of Person hood over nature
"Openess of being" and "ek-stasis of being", moving beyond the boundaries of the self is a key theme in this book ", What one longs for is a dialogue between Zizioulas' thought and that of personalist thought of John Paul II, Edith Stein and others (John Crosby's book "The selfhood of the human person" comes to mind) to bring out common elements and differences. Zizioulas takes the view that the West has been damaged by individualism which he sees (I think) as traceable to Augustine's and defining person as an individual (Boetheus).
Death and the soul
I found this part of the book a little weak - I have never been able to understand what precisely is the Orthodox view of the soul between death and the eschaton and I don't think this book clears it up in any way.
Final thoughts
It must be said that this book is a difficult read at times (note: Rowan Williams even says so himself in the preface!); I freely admit that his chapter on presence and absence was lost on me but I could follow his thought in the rest of the book. This is the kind of book to be read and re-read but above all, it again reminds us that the mystery of the Trinity is right at the heart of the Christian mystery. And, it underscores how important is the explicit celebration of the Trinity in our Liturgy but also in our private prayer. In other words, our personal prayer life must be both a celebration of God as communion but God constituted in Otherness but yet One. We come to God in our otherness and he loves us in our otherness, guaranteeing that theosis brings to completion our created otherness - we are never absorbed into the Divine being.
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