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* In his article titled [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-0025.00202 Person versus Individual and Other Modern Misreadings of Gregory of Nyssa], by [[Lucian Turcescu]], writer exposes the differences between patristic theology and theology of the John Zizioulas.
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* In his article titled [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-0025.00202 Person versus Individual and Other Modern Misreadings of Gregory of Nyssa], by [[Lucian Turcescu]], writer argues that there differences between patristic theology and theology of the John Zizioulas.
  
 
* [[Peter J. Leithart]] in his article [http://www.leithart.com/archives/002006.php Divine Energies and Orthodox Soteriology] touches the work of Aristotle Papanikolaou, who points to differences between [[Vladimir Lossky]] and John Zizioulas on the issue of divine [[Essence-Energies distinction|energies]]. Lossky's work is in Orthodoxy well established and widely accepted as contemporary synthesis of the patristic theology.  
 
* [[Peter J. Leithart]] in his article [http://www.leithart.com/archives/002006.php Divine Energies and Orthodox Soteriology] touches the work of Aristotle Papanikolaou, who points to differences between [[Vladimir Lossky]] and John Zizioulas on the issue of divine [[Essence-Energies distinction|energies]]. Lossky's work is in Orthodoxy well established and widely accepted as contemporary synthesis of the patristic theology.  
  
* In the book "Innovatory Theology of Metropolitan Zizioulas", by Rodoljub Lazic (In [[Serbian language|Serbian]], ATOS - Missionary Center, [[Belgrade]] 2002), writer explains why work of the Zizioulas differ from traditional Orthodoxy. He exposes connection between obvious Zizioulas' Ecumenistic orientation and his theology that he constructed in a way to satisfy and be in compliance with his own [[Ecumenism]].
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* In the book "Innovatory Theology of Metropolitan Zizioulas", by Rodoljub Lazic (In [[Serbian language|Serbian]], ATOS - Missionary Center, [[Belgrade]] 2002), writer explains why he believes the work of Zizioulas differs from traditional Orthodoxy. He argues that there is a connection between Zizioulas' ecumenical orientation and his theology.
  
 
* In his letter, [http://www.synodinresistance.org/Administration_en/ChrysostomosEtna.html Archbishop Chrysostomos] states: ''"...once we pass beyond the non-Orthodox, dated book by the eccentric British scholar [[D.M. Lang]], who is quoted in the text that you sent me, as well as the mind-set of such Westernized theologians as Father [[John Meyendorff]] and Metropolitan John (Zizioulas), to the eminently Orthodox thought of Father [[Georges Florovsky]] (though Zizioulas was a student of Father Georges, his theological and philosophical thinking has deviated substantially from the Patristic principles set forth by his mentor), we see this matter in a clearer way."'' [http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/her_saints.aspx]
 
* In his letter, [http://www.synodinresistance.org/Administration_en/ChrysostomosEtna.html Archbishop Chrysostomos] states: ''"...once we pass beyond the non-Orthodox, dated book by the eccentric British scholar [[D.M. Lang]], who is quoted in the text that you sent me, as well as the mind-set of such Westernized theologians as Father [[John Meyendorff]] and Metropolitan John (Zizioulas), to the eminently Orthodox thought of Father [[Georges Florovsky]] (though Zizioulas was a student of Father Georges, his theological and philosophical thinking has deviated substantially from the Patristic principles set forth by his mentor), we see this matter in a clearer way."'' [http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/her_saints.aspx]

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Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon

His Eminence John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon (b. 1930) is a modern theologian, Metropolitan of Pergamon, Greece, under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. He was consecrated as a bishop on June 22, 1986.


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Books

  • Being and Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church (Crestwood, NY: St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 1997)
  • Eucharist, Bishop, Church: The Unity of the Church in the Divine Eucharist and the Bishop During the First Three Centuries (Brookline, MA: Holy Cross, 2001)
  • Communion & Otherness: Further Studies in Personhood and the Church (London: T & T Clark, 2007)

Studies

  • Fox, Patricia A. God as Communion: John Zizioulas, Elizabeth Johnson, and the Retrieval of the Symbol of the Triune God (Michael Glazer, 2001)
  • Knight, Douglas, ed. The Theology of John Zizioulas: Personhood and the Church (Ashgate, 2007)
  • Papanikolaou, Aristotle. Being with God: Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine-Human Communion (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006)

Academic Theological Criticism

  • In the book "Innovatory Theology of Metropolitan Zizioulas", by Rodoljub Lazic (In Serbian, ATOS - Missionary Center, Belgrade 2002), writer explains why he believes the work of Zizioulas differs from traditional Orthodoxy. He argues that there is a connection between Zizioulas' ecumenical orientation and his theology.
  • In his letter, Archbishop Chrysostomos states: "...once we pass beyond the non-Orthodox, dated book by the eccentric British scholar D.M. Lang, who is quoted in the text that you sent me, as well as the mind-set of such Westernized theologians as Father John Meyendorff and Metropolitan John (Zizioulas), to the eminently Orthodox thought of Father Georges Florovsky (though Zizioulas was a student of Father Georges, his theological and philosophical thinking has deviated substantially from the Patristic principles set forth by his mentor), we see this matter in a clearer way." [1]

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