TIME

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Dumitru Staniloae, Kallistos Ware

ISBN: 978-0-7283-0364-5

LENGTH: 46 pages

Fairacres Publications 208

2023

Two essays on time by two of the greatest modern Orthodox theologians, Dumitru Stăniloae and Kallistos Ware.

This book brings together essays by two outstanding Orthodox theologians to examine the paradox of time in relation to the eternity of God: Dumitru Stăniloae’s, ‘Eternity and Time’, a talk given to the Sisters of the Love of God in 1971, was expanded in the first volume of his Teologia dogmatica ortodoxa (3 vols., Bucharest, 1978). The preface to the 1994 English translation of that work, Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, written by Kallistos Ware, was based on his essay, ‘Time: Prison or Path to Freedom?’, which was first published in 1989 by SLG Press. These reflections, brought together for the first time here, remain at the forefront of modern theology.

Stăniloae illuminates time as a journey on which we may grow in response to the love that God offers us, a journey towards sharing in the eternity of the perfect, interpersonal communion of the Trinity. God, in His Incarnation, shares the journey with us in Christ, so that time enters into eternity, and eternity is brought into time. At every moment we are free to choose between responding to His love or rejecting it.

Ware’s essay explains that it is the vocation of time to be open to eternity; time is fulfilled when God’s eternity breaks into the temporal sequence, as happened supremely at Christ’s birth in Bethlehem, as happens also at every Eucharist. Our faith is the true rationale of time: mutual love after the image of the Trinity.

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ISBN

978-0-7283-0364-5

Length

46 pages

ISSN

0307-1405

Book Size

140 x 210 mm

Author

Dumitru Staniloae, Kallistos Ware

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Author Bio

Dumitru Staniloae (1903-1993), a Romanian Orthodox priest, was Professor of Dogmatic Theology both at Sibiu in Transylvania and at Bucharest. As a result of the publication of his version of the ‘Philokalia’ in Romanian, he was particularly associated with monastic revival in his country. He was looked to as a Christian leader during the prolonged oppression of Christians in Romania and was imprisoned 1958-63. He is becoming known increasingly in the English-speaking world, as more of his writings are translated.

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Metropolitan Kallistos Ware of Diokleia, who has charge of the Greek Orthodox parish in Oxford, was Spalding Lecturer in the University of Oxford until 2001 and is Chairman of the Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue. Born in 1934 and raised in the Church of England, he became Orthodox in 1958, a priest and monk eight years later, and Bishop of Diokleia in 1982. He has written many books, including ‘The Orthodox Church’ and ‘The Orthodox Way’, has contributed to the translation of Orthodox service books and is a translator of ‘The Philokalia’.

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