Orthodox Dogmatic Theology: Creation, God's Image in Man, & the Redeeming Work of the Trinity

In this book, a revised, annotated, and expanded second edition of Théologie dogmatique, edited in the French by Olivier Clément and Michel Stavrou, readers encounter Lossky s classroom lectures on dogmatic theology. Lossky confronts the great questions of theology: How can we know God? How is the Creator related to his creation? What is the vocation of human beings, created in God s image?These questions are understood in light of the two great mysteries of the faith: the Trinity and the incarnation of the Son of God. In Lossky s articulation, these are not abstract theories, but living and vivid realities. Emphasizing the thought of the Fathers, Lossky actualizes the latter in a creative fashion through a critical reflection namely on the theme of the person attempting through an approach that is faithful and free, to express the elements of the ecclesial tradition in a contemporary language. In the wake of the Fathers, Lossky linked dogma narrowly to the spiritual life, rejecting th