Fathers Eternal Freedom
Fathers Eternal Freedom John Zizioulas is renowned for his controversial reflection on the ontological freedom as the cause and cipher of God's being, which also has important implications for…
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Fathers Eternal Freedom
John Zizioulas is renowned for his controversial reflection on the ontological freedom as the cause and cipher of God's being, which also has important implications for anthropology, ecclesiology and ecumenical dialogue. In particular, Zizioulas shows how, by virtue of the Father, personhood coincides with absolute freedom. This view is bound up with a personalist conception of the Trinity, recognised in the teaching of the Greek Church Fathers, in which the person represents the primary ontological category.
Taking into account Zizioulas' epistemological principles, his patristic reading and his theological development, the author systematically presents Zizioulas' thesis, verifying its conformity to dogma and its internal coherence. In The Father's Eternal Freedom, Dario Chiapetti explores this ontology. Chiapetti analyses how Zizioulas' proposal brings back to the centre of