This volume offers a critical appraisal of the theology of John Zizioulas, acclaimed advocate of ecumenism. Leading Anglican, Reformed, Catholic and Orthodox international scholars, including Colin Gunton, Nicholas Loudovikos, Paul McPartlan, Wolfhart Pannenberg and Philip Rosato present essays which analyse Zizioulas' trinitarian doctrine of God, and his theological account of the Church as the place in which freedom and communion are actualised. Many include discussions of Zizioulas' Being as Communion as well as other lesser known works, now available in Communion and Otherness. Together they represent an unrivalled introduction to the work of this great theologian.

Contents: Introduction, Douglas H. Knight; Eschatology and truth, Robert Turner; On the criticism of Being as Communion in Anglophone orthodox theology, Alan Brown; Divine economy and eternal Trinity, Wolfhart Pannenberg; The work of the Holy Spirit: the differentiation of human and divine salvific acts in the pneumatomachian controversy, Markus Mÿhling; Persons and particularity, Colin Gunton; Person and nature: the necessity-freedom dialectic in John Zizioulas, Douglas Farrow; Christian life and institutional Church, Nicholas Loudovikos; Church, eucharist, bishop: the early church in the ecclesiology of John Zizioulas, Demetrios Bathrellos; Authority and ecumenism, Paul Collins; The ordination of the baptized: the laity as an order of the Church, Philip Rosato SJ; The local and universal Church: Zozioulas and the Ratzinger-Kasper debate, Paul McPartlan; The Spirit and persons in the liturgy, Douglas H. Knight; Bibliography: secondary works on John Zizioulas; Index.