Table of Contents

Introduction: The Perspective

Part One: The Theology of Experience
1. Faith and Experience
2. Logos
3. Christ and the Trinity
4. Time, Space and Eternity in the Liturgy

Part Two: An Icon Exhibition
5. Icons: The Way to Gaze on God
6. The Crucifixion
7. The Descent into Hades
8. The Protection of the Theotokos
9. The Life Giving Fountain
10. The Burning Bush
11. The Bogolubskaya
12. The All Seeing Eye of God

Part Three: Holding the Gaze
13. After the Icon Exhibition
14. Towards a Meta-linguistic Theological Methodology

Referenced Works and Suggested Further Reading
Index

About the Author

Revd Dr Andreas Andreopoulos is Reader in Orthodox Theology at the University of Winchester and an Orthodox priest. He is also the author of 'This is my Beloved Son: The Transfiguration of Christ', 2012, 'Art as Theology: From the Postmodern to the Medieval', 2007, 'The Sign of the Cross: The Gesture, the Mystery, the History', 2006, and 'Metamorphosis: The Transfiguration in Byzantine Theology and Iconography', 2005.

Reviews

"The author takes us through his exhibition of chosen icons and shows how they convey biblical and theological truth, and so incorporate us into the life of the church though meditative looking, The author uses illustrations from his native Greek culture, and this introduces an approach that maybe fresh and unfamiliar [...] He shows us not only that there are varied ways of appropriating the tradition of faith, but also that faith has to be expressed and communicated within a specific culture and that each age has to discover its own language, images and experiences, in order to express faith in a way that lives."
The Revd. Dr John Binns, Church Times, (Sept, 2014)

"This is a gem of a book, and although it doesn't claim to give a full account of the theology of the icon, like the classic two-volume work of Leonid Ouspensky, a number of popular misconceptions are corrected. It is, as Andreopoulos writes, less about what we see as about who sees us (pp. 60 and 130)."
Caroline Williams, in "The Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East Bulletin", issue 62, winter 2014-15

"This is an excellent and interesting book that I hope will be read by anyone who is interested in iconography, and more broadly, anyone who is interested in the interaction of liturgy, aesthetics and theology. "
Stephen Stavrou, in "Art and Christianity", vol.81, Spring 2015

Andreopoulos brings Art History to bear in a lively and relevant Theological fashion ... this is a stimulating work that would be a good partial introduction to Eastern Orthodoxy for Undergraduates and non-academics.
Christopher Villiers, Theological Book Review, volume 26, no 1, 2014