The Experience of God: Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, vol. 3, The Person of Jesus Christ as God and Savior

by Dumitru Stăniloae, Ioan Ionita (Editor), His Beatitude DANIEL of Romania (Editor)

In this, the third volume of The Experience of God, Fr. Dumitru Staniloae's Orthodox Dogmatic Theology (the third half-volume of the Romanian original), we find his treatment of Christology, of the Person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ. At first sight, it seems a very traditional treatment biblical witness of both the Old and New Testaments, the patristic witness, the theology of the Incarnation, and then a treatment of Christ s work as Prophet, Priest, and King but the traditional structure ... disguises an account of Christ that, though certainly deeply traditional and Orthodox, is challenging and even revolutionary in its approach. - From the introduction by Andrew Louth

Genres: Theology, Religion

182 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Dumitru Stăniloae (Romanian pronunciation: [duˈmitru stəniˈlo̯aje] was a Romanian Eastern Orthodox priest, theologian, academic, and professor. Father Stăniloae worked for over 45 years on a comprehensive Romanian translation of the Philokalia, a collection of writings by the Church Fathers, together with the hieromonk, Arsenie Boca, who brought manuscripts from Mount Athos. His masterpiece, The Dogmatic Orthodox Theology (1978), makes him one of the most reputed Christian Theologians of the second half of the 20th century. He produced valuable comments on the works of the Fathers of the Church, such as Gregory of Nyssa, Maximus the Confessor, or Athanasius the Great.

Reviews

[Silouan · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Considering that our salvation is achieved through the suffering of this "punishment" until the end, as juridical satisfaction to God's honor, Catholic theology formulated the theory that the Church has been fully established at the foot of the cross.
The Church is not established juridically, but flows ontologically from Christ's body, which, although sanctified on the cross, is not yet filled with the entire divine power until its Resurrection and Ascension.
The Church is actualized through all these acts, even though it is virtually given at Incarnation. The Church considered as being established at the foot of the cross, after the full satisfaction has been paid off, is a Church exclusively understood as the earthly society of those who settled their conflict with God through Christ. But the Church is an eschatological community, or its maturation, extended from Christ's risen body. The theory that everything has been resolved through the acquittal of the price for sin on the cross, and not through the deification of the body as source of our deification, considers the Resurrection as only the recompense given to Christ for accepting the cross, not as the cornerstone that supports the entire work of the salvation and deification of the body, as the foundation for the salvation and deification of human beings.”

[G Walker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Please see my notes from volume 1 in this series.