Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
1: Human perfection in Orthodox theological anthropology: retrieving the Christological imperative
2: Perpetual progress or eternal rest? Contemplating the eschaton in St Maximus the Confessor
3: Perfection before our eyes: St Theodore the Studite on the humanity of Christ
4: I am called by two names, human and divine: dogma and deification in St Symeon the New Theologian
5: The energy of deification and the person of Jesus Christ in St Gregory Palamas
Conclusion

About the Author

Alexis Torrance is the Archbishop Demetrios Associate Professor of Byzantine Theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught since 2014. He took his degrees at the University of Oxford and has held research fellowships at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC.

Reviews

This book is the best anglophone book in Byzantine theology of the past twenty years. It has a strong claim to being the most important book in Byzantine theology in any Western language since Vladimir Lossky's The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (1944).
*Matthew C. Briel, The Thomist*

This book is the best anglophone book in Byzantine theology of the past twenty years.
*Matthew C. Briel, Assumption University Worcester, Massachusetts, The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review*

Torrance's Human Perfection in Byzantine Theology is a remarkable and thorough analysis of a central tenet in Byzantine theology. The range and depth of sources is impressive, and Torrance often sheds new light on familiar texts while bringing unfamiliar texts to our attention.
*Kevin Kalish, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA, USA, Scottish Journal of Theology*