Aristotle Papanikolaou and Elizabeth H. Prodromou, editors

Within these pages a younger generation of Orthodox scholars in America takes up the perennial task of transmitting the meaning of Christianity to a particular time and culture. This collection of twelve essays, as the title Thinking Through Faith implies, is the result of six years of reflective conversation and collaboration regarding core beliefs of the Orthodox faith, tenets that the authors present from fresh perspectives that appeal to reason and spiritual sensibilities alike.

This is an impressive and exciting book, adventurous in spirit, that has opened my mind to many new possibilities. It is particularly encouraging that the contributors belong to the younger generation of Orthodox scholars: they are proof that the future of Orthodox thinking in the West is in good hands. We Orthodox like to speak of ourselves as the Church of Holy Tradition: this book shows exactly how Tradition can and should be both living and creative.                         Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia

Table of Contents [The Institute member Perry Hamalis wrote the chapter entitled: "The Meaning and Place of Death in an Orthodox Ethical Framework]

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Notes from a talk presenting a liturgical reading of the Book of Genesis, given by Rebecca Luft, in October 2008

Rebecca’s presentation [Orthodoxy and Old Testament] opened up on fascinating aspects in the Jewish liturgy at the root of our own Orthodox liturgy.

She also invited us to read Gn 1 as a liturgical account.

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