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Book Review

DIMITRIS SALAPATAS
Modern Orthodox Thinkers – From the Philokalia to the present. Andrew Louth.
£19.99. SPCK, 2015. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0-281-07127-2.
FR ANDREW LOUTH has
recently published his new
book Modern Orthodox
Thinkers – From the
Philokalia to the present,
published by SPCK. This
book endeavours to give an
introduction to the
modern Orthodox
theological discourse and
its representatives, making
it the ‘standard handbook
on the ways of Orthodox
theology in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries,’
as stated by Fr John Behr.
This book is a
revised version of a
number of public lectures
the author gave between
2012 and 2014 at the
Amsterdam Centre for
Eastern Orthodox Studies
(ACEOT), following his
previous book (Introducing
Eastern Orthodox Theology,
SPCK, 2013), which was also based on public lectures Fr Andrew gave in
Amsterdam. However, his new book gives ‘a history of Orthodox thinkers,
rather than a history of Orthodox thought, or theology,’ (p. xiii) who were
influenced in one way or another by the Philokalia, returning therefore
Orthodox thinkers and thought to ‘a theology rooted in the Christian

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