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Cover -- Human Perfection In Byzantine Theology: Attaining The Fullness Of Christ -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Human Perfection In Orthodox Theological Anthropology: Retrieving The Christological Imperative -- 1. Method -- A Defence Of 'neo-patristic Synthesis' -- Approaching Theological Anthropology: Christ As Cornerstone -- 2. The Roots And Contours Of Modern Orthodox Theological Anthropology -- Orthodox Theology Of The Person/hypostasis -- Personalism And Orthodox Theology -- Forging The Rudiments Of An Orthodox Theological Personalism John Zizioulas And The Debate Over Hypostasis -- Deification As A Christocentric Doctrine -- The God-man Versus Godmanhood: Delineating Orthodox Approaches To Deification -- Chapter 2: Perpetual Progress Or Eternal Rest?: Contemplating The Eschaton In St Maximus The Confessor -- 1. Perpetual Progress And Its Discontents -- Epektasis As Normative -- Problems With Epektasis -- Perpetual Progress In Early Byzantine Theology: The Evidence -- 2. The Eschatology Of Maximus The Confessor -- Some Preliminaries -- Christocentric Deification And The Suspicion Of Change -- The Blessed Sabbath Born(e) Into The Age To Come -- From Ever-moving Rest To Undivided Union -- Inheritors Of His Holy Name -- The Stature Of The Fullness In The Mystery Of Love -- Chapter 3: Perfection Before Our Eyes: St Theodore The Studite On The Humanity Of Christ -- Theodore The Studite -- 1. The One Human Nature Of Christ, Of Mary, And Of Us -- Introduction -- Christ's Human Nature -- The Humanity Of Mary -- 2. From The Humanity Of Christ To The Humanity Of The Saints -- Our Corrupted Nature Raised Above The Heavens -- The Healing Of My Nature -- The Earthiness Of The Holy: Seeing Perfection In The Coenobium Chapter 4: I Am Called By Two Names, Human And Divine: Dogma And Deification In St Symeon The New Theologian -- Symeon The New Theologian -- 1. Mediocrity Routed -- The Threat Of A Mediocre Ideal -- Mediocrit