دانلود کتاب Power and Authority in Eastern Christian Experience: Papers of the Sophia Institute Academic Conference New York, December 2010

Contents
President’s Preface 10-11
Editor’s Preface 12-15
PART I: POWER AND AUTHORITY IN ANCIENT TEXTS AND TRADITION
Authority, Obedience, and the Holiness of God: The New
Testament Sense of the Kingdom 18-33
John A. McGuckin
Literacy, Orality, and the Brokerage of Power and Authority
in Late Antique Egyptian Christianity 34-60
Stamenka Antonova
‘I Must Decrease’: Spiritual Direction and Power in the Orthodox
Tradition 61-69
Alexis Torrance
“The Limits Now Fixed”: Appealing to Authority in the
Trullan Canons 70-82
Seraphim Danckaert
The Relationship between Bishops, Synods, and the
Metropolitan-Bishop in the Orthodox Canonical Tradition
Alexander Rentel 83-90
The Theology of St. Cyprian of Carthage: The Unity of the
Church and the Role of the Bishop 91-102
Theodor Damian
An Exploration of Hierarchy as Fractal in the Theology of
Dionysios the Areopagite 103-118
Georgia Williams

PART II: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE
Gregory the Great and a Post-Imperial Discourse
George Demacopoulos 120-137
Holy Disobedience: Resistance to Secular and Ecclesiastical
Authority in Orthodox Christian History 138-162
A. Edward Siecienski
Church-State Right-Ordering: St. Columba’s Early Medieval
Example in the Insular Isles 163-170
Kim McCann
The New Emperors? Post-Soviet Presidents and Church-State
Relations in Ukraine and Russia 171-192
Nikolas Gvosdev
PART III: THE INTERACTION BETWEEN CHURCH, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE
Phoebe as an Example of Female Authority Exercised in the Early Church 194-208
V.K. McCarty
Symphonia in the Secular or How to Be Orthodox When
You Lose Your Empire 209-218
David James Dunn
Training the “Community Servant”: The Greek Orthodox
Church in America and the Teachers College of St. Basil’s
Academy, 1959-1973 219-232
Fevronia K. Soumakis
Authority in the Church: Confronting Contemporary Challenges
Frank Dobbs 233-240
The Synod Guiding the Church: A Patristic and Theoethical
Perspective 241-247
Eftychios Phil Eftychiadis