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By testifying to the superabundance of God incarnate and of the Trinity, apophaticism is the seal of a theological and philosophical reflection which, in fidelity to classical metaphysics, does not shrink from asserting the value of ontology: theology is in reality a theory of being as Trinitarian Mystery. The Greek theologian [Christos Yannaras] proposes a reflection which, precisely because it is apophatic, is also a critical reflection on the Church and on the historical forms that are always inadequate with regard to the free breath of the Spirit -Giacomo Canobbio

By testifying to the superabundance of God incarnate and of the Trinity, apophaticism is the seal of a theological and philosophical reflection which, in fidelity to classical metaphysics, does not shrink from asserting the value of ontology: theology is in reality a theory of being as Trinitarian Mystery. The Greek theologian [Christos Yannaras] proposes a reflection which, precisely because it is apophatic, is also a critical reflection on the Church and on the historical forms that are always inadequate with regard to the free breath of the Spirit -Giacomo Canobbio This book is a particularly welcome addition to the secondary literature of Yannaras, and it is truly successful as the first ever extensive introduction to the whole spectrum of his thought. -Dr. Solitris Mitralexis, University of Athens & University of Winchester

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Basilio Petrà is a Roman Catholic priest born in 1946 to Greek parents from Rhodes. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Florence and a doctorate in theology from the Lateran University of Rome. The author of more than twenty books (in Italian) on patristic and modern theology, he is Professor of Moral Theology and of the Ethics of Marriage at the Theological School of Central Italy (Florence) and Visiting Professor of Greek Patristic Moral Theology at the Lateran University. Norman Russell is an Orthodox translator and patristic scholar of partial Greek descent. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and is an Honorary Research Fellow of St Stephen's House of the same university. His publications include Metaphysics as a Personal Adventure: Christos Yannaras in Conversation with Norman Russell (2017) and Gregory Palamas and the Making of Palamism in the Modern Age (2019).

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