Personhood in the Byzantine Christian tradition early, medieval, and modern perspectives

IntroductionAlexis Torrance and Symeon Paschalidis  Section I - Ancient Christian, Early Byzantine1 Personal relationship as a prerequisite for moral imitation according to the Apostle PaulChristos Karakolis2 Emotional "scripts" and personal moral identity: insights from the Greek FathersPaul M. Blowers3 Personhood in miaphysitism: Severus of Antioch and John PhiloponusJohannes Zachhuber  Section II - Early to Middle Byzantine4 Hypostasis, person and individual according to St Maximus the Confessor, withreference to the Cappadocians and St John of DamascusJean-Claude Larchet5 Mary, the Mother of God, in dialogue: the drama of personal encounter in the Byzantine liturgical tradition Mary B. Cunningham6 Personification in Byzantine hymnography: kontakia and canonsDamaskinos Olkinuora Section III - Late Byzantine7 The exemplar of consubstantiality: St. Gregory Palamas' hesychast as an expression of a microcosmic approach to personhood Demetrios Harper8 Nicholas Cabasilas of Thessaloniki: the historical dimension of the person Marie-Helene Congourdeau9 Freedom, necessity and the laws of nature in the thought of Gennadios ScholariosMatthew C. Briel Section IV - Modern10 Flesh and Spirit: divergent Orthodox readings of the iconic body in Byzantiumand the twentieth centuryEvan Freeman11 Nikos Nissiotis, the "theology of the '60s" and personhood: continuity or discontinuity? Nikolaos Asproulis12 Eastern Christian conceptions of personhood and their political significance Nicolas Prevelakis13 Consubstantial Selves: a discussion between Orthodox personalism, existential psychology, Heinz Kohut, and Jean-Luc MarionNicholas Loudovikos