Creation as Eucharist

  • Year 1992
  • Type Book
  • Genre theology
  • Tradition Eastern Orthodox
  • Original language Greek

For For readers interested in an Orthodox theology of creation and the ecological crisis; a short book, though still theological in its language.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher
3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty
3 of 5 demanding

A short book treating the ecological crisis as a theological question, with the Eucharist as the model for how human beings relate to creation.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 3 of 5
  • Scriptural 2 of 5
  • Experiential 1 of 5
  • Sociological 3 of 5
  • Historical 1 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A short book published at Athens by Akritas in 1992, later reissued by Porfyra in 2019 with the subtitle A theological approach to the problem of ecology. Zizioulas treats the ecological crisis as a theological question and proposes the Eucharist as the model for the human relation to the created world. The theme of the human being as the priest of creation, which recurs across his later writing on ecology, is central to it. It was translated into Italian (Il creato come Eucaristia, 1994), Romanian (1999), Portuguese (2001) and Spanish (2015).

Catalog IDW.TW87KQ.M

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