Forthcoming Article on Free Will

I recently returned the proofs for a forthcoming article on the concepts of free will and the human act in seventeenth century Eastern Orthodox theology.

I am very interested in the concept of free will (to autexousion) since I sympathize with personalism and existential philosophies. ‘Free will’ is also interesting since it is the only theological concept which has been more clearly defined in the Eastern Orthodox Churches’ creedal statements (i.e., the so-called “symbolic books”) than in contemporary Roman Catholic doctrinal statements. The article is scheduled to be published in the next issue of Studia Theologica. The abstract reads as follows:

This article analyses the doctrine of free will (autexousion) in the confessions of St. Peter Mogila and Dositheos II Notaras of Jerusalem. Free will is a central concept in Eastern Christian anthropology and these two monuments of theology represent how the understanding of the concept of free will developed in Eastern Orthodox theology in the context of confrontation with Western theologies in the seventeenth century.