Illness and Healing in Orthodox Theology

A short book, 53 pages, published by Sebastian Press at Los Angeles in 2016, translated by J. W. Lillie and illustrated by Fr Stamatis Skliris. It asks what sickness is in general and mental illness in particular, what therapy and cure mean, and when a person can be called healed. Drawing above all on Maximus the Confessor, for whom self-love is the root of the passions, Zizioulas argues that real healing requires uprooting self-love, and that love, self-mastery and free will are its means.