Intro -- Halftitle -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Section A: Metropolitan John Zizioulas: Precursors, The Theologian, Admirers and Detractors -- Chapter 1: The Background: Three Significant Precursors -- The Debate -- Archbishop Basil Krivocheine -- Father Dumitru Staniloae -- Paul Evdokimov -- Chapter 2: Metropolitan John Zizioulas' Understanding of the Spiritual Life: An Overview -- First Main Facet of Metropolitan John Zizioulas' Spirituality: Historical-Eschatological Dimension Second Main Facet of Metropolitan John Zizioulas' Spirituality: Christological-Ecclesiological Dimension -- Third Main Facet of Metropolitan John Zizioulas' Spirituality: The Limited Anthropological Dimension -- Chapter 3: Responses to Metropolitan John Zizioulas -- Petros Vassiliadis -- Stavros Yangazoglou -- Father Calinic Berger -- Aristotle Papanikolaou -- Jean-Claude Larchet -- Father Nikolaos Loudovikos -- Section B: Saint Maximos the Confessor and His Successors -- Chapter 4: The Mystagogy of Saint Maximos the Confessor -- Introduction -- Structure and Character of the Mystagogy Prologue -- The Church and Man as Images -- The Commentary on the Divine Liturgy -- The Application of the Divine Institutions to the Perfection of the Soul -- The Recapitulations and Exhortations -- Two Levels of Spiritual Life -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: The Eucharist in the Ethical Discourses of Saint Symeon the New Theologian -- The Life and Witness of Saint Symeon -- Saint Symeon on the Eucharist -- Basic Themes -- The Nuptial-Ecclesial Theme and the Eucharist -- Saint Symeon's Ecclesiology -- A Eucharistic Reading of the Fifth Chapter of Ephesians -- Incarnation and Eucharist The Creation of Man, the Incarnation, and the Eucharist -- The Pneumatological Theme -- The Eternal Good Things -- The Eucharist and Asceticism -- Perceiving the Eucharist with Spiritual Eyes -- Baptism, Eucharist and Deification -- Orthodox Spirituality and the Human Soul -- Double Perception -- The Goal of the Eucharistic Life -- Unity between Asceticism and the Eucharist -- Chapter 6: Baptism and the Eucharist in the Homilies of Saint Gregory Palamas -- The Importance of Saint Gregory Palamas in Contemporary Orthodox Theology -- The Homilies -- Baptism -- Baptism as Healing Baptism, Chrismation and Eschatology -- Ascetic Preparation for the Eucharist -- The Eucharist as Entrance into Heaven -- The Eucharist as Union -- Christ as Brother, Father and Mother -- Two Twentieth-Century Commentators -- Chapter 7: The Witness of Three Important and Inter-related Fathers -- Section C: Two Representative Contemporary Orthodox Theologians -- Chapter 8: Father Alexander Schmemann on the Spiritual Life -- Introduction -- Reservations: What Spirituality Is Not -- Spiritualities of Capitulation or Retreat -- What Spirituality Is -- Conclusion | 
