For For readers wanting his account of the human person in a short book; a good second step after his lectures, not a first book on Orthodoxy.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
3 of 5worth your time
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
3 of 5demanding
A short book on what it means to be a person, restored in Christ and lived in the Church.
How it proceeds
Philosophic4 of 5
Scriptural1 of 5
Experiential1 of 5
Sociological2 of 5
Historical1 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
A short book, 104 pages, published by Sebastian Press at Los Angeles. The publisher presents it as a look back over his theology: personhood as an ecstatic and hypostatic way of being that is not bound by necessity, restored in Christ, which leads to the Church as a community in which nature is referred to God through human persons, and so to a Church that is eucharistic by nature.