Byzantine Orthodoxies
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Alexander Lingas
Andrew Louth
Archimandrite Ephrem (Lash)
Byzantine Chant
Byzantine Jews
Byzantine Orthodox Tradition
Byzantine Orthodoxies
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Chalcedonian Definition
Christian doctrine in medieval empire
Christological Controversies
Dimitra Kotoula
Dirk KrausmLler
ecumenical councils
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Gregory Palamas
Hesychast Controversy
Holy Icons
Holy Mountain
iconoclasm controversy
Iconoclast Emperors
Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev
John Behr
Late Byzantine Period
Late Byzantium
Leo III
Leslie Brubaker
liturgical music history
Liz James
Methodios Patriarch
Middle Byzantine Period
Nicaea II
Nicene Creed
Nicholas De Lange
Norman Russell
Orthodox Taste
Patricia Karlin-Hayter
patristic theology
Peter III
religious identity formation
Robin Cormack
Sergei Averintsev
Seventh Council
Term Theotokos
Theophanes Continuatus
Tia Kolbaba
Tia M. Kolbaba
Unleavened Bread
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9781138264991
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Oct 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Byzantine Empire - the Christianized Roman Empire - very soon defined itself in terms of correct theological belief, 'orthodoxy'. The terms of this belief were hammered out, for the most part, by bishops, but doctrinal decisions were made in councils called by the Emperors, many of whom involved themselves directly in the definition of 'orthodoxy'. Iconoclasm was an example of such imperial involvement, as was the final overthrow of iconoclasm. That controversy ensured that questions of Christian art were also seen by Byzantines as implicated in the question of orthodoxy. The papers gathered in this volume derive from those presented at the 36th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Durham, March 2002. They discuss how orthodoxy was defined, and the different interests that it represented; how orthodoxy was expressed in art and the music of the liturgy; and how orthodoxy helped shape the Byzantine Empire's sense of its own identity, an identity defined against the 'other' - Jews, heretics and, especially from the turn of the first millennium, the Latin West. These considerations raise wider questions about the way in which societies and groups use world-views and issues of belief to express and articulate identity. At a time when, with the enlargement of the European Union, questions of identity within Europe are once again becoming pressing, there is much in these essays of topical relevance.
Andrew Louth is Professor and Augustine Casiday is Leverhulme Fellow, both in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham, UK.
