Toc: Foreword
Albert J. Raboteau, Princeton University 9
Introduction
Elizabeth H. Prodromou, Boston University
Aristotle Papanikolaou, Fordham University 13
"The Kingdom of God":
Paul the Apostle's Perilous Proclamation
John Fotopoulos, Saint Mary's College,Notre Dame 19
The Foundations of Noetic Prayer
Demetrios S. Katos, HeUenic College 43
What Are We Doing, Talking about God?
The Discipline of Theology
John Behr, St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary 67
Understanding Pastoral Care in the Early Church
George E. Demacopoulos, Fordham University 87
Orthodox Theologies of Women and Ordained Ministry
Valerie A. Karras, Southern Methodist University II3
Reading the lives of the Saints
James c. Skedros,
Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology 159
The Meaning and Place of Death
in an Orthodox Ethical Framework
Perry T. Hamalis, North Central College 183
Honest to God: Confession and Desire
Aristotle Papanikolaou, Fordham University 219
International Religious Freedom
and the Challenge of Proselytism
Elizabeth H. Prodromou, Boston University 247
Four Types of "Orthopraxy U among
Orthodox Christians in America
Anton C. Vrame,
Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology 279
Byzantine Uturgy as God's Family at Prayer
John Klentos, Graduate Theological Union 309
Learning about Ourselves:
A Snapshot of the Orthodox Church in the
Twenty-first Century
£leni Makris, Northeastern minois University 341
About the Contributors 367