The category of the and "West and " has played a particularly significant role in the modern Eastern Orthodox imagination. It has functioned as an absolute marker of difference from what is considered to be the essence of Orthodoxy, and, thus, ironically, has become a constitutive aspect of the modern Orthodox self. The essays collected in this volume examines the many factors that contributed to the and "Eastern and " construction of the and "West and " in order to understand why the and "West and " is so important to the Eastern Christian's sense of self.TABLE OF CONTENTSSearching for an Inter-disciplinary and Theoretically-informed Approach to the Orthodox Naming of the OtherGeorge E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou Perceptions and Realities in Orthodox-Catholic Relations Today: Reflections on the Past, Prospects for the FutureRobert F. Taft, SJByzantines, Armenians, and Latins: Unleavened Bread and Heresy in the Tenth CenturyTia Kolbaba and "Light from the West and ": Byzantine Readings of Aquinas Marcus PlestedFrom the and "Shield of Orthodoxy and " to the and "Tome of Joy and ": The Anti-Western Stance of Dositheos II of Jerusalem (1641-1707) Norman Russell The Burdens of Tradition: Orthodox Constructions of the West in Russia (late XIX-early XX cc.)Vera Shevzov Florovsky's Neopatristic Synthesis and the Future Ways of Orthodox Theology Paul Gavrilyuk Eastern and "Mystical Theology and " or Western and "Nouvelle Theologie and "?: On the Comparative Reception of Dionysius the Areopagite in Lossky and de LubacSarah Coakley The Image of the West in Contemporary Greek TheologyPantelis Kalaitzidis Christos Yannaras and the Idea of and "Dysis and "Basilio Petra Religion in the Greek Public Sphere: Debating Europe's InfluenceEffie Fokas Shaking the Comfortable Conceits of and "Otherness and ": What Can Political Science Offer to the Study and "Orthodox Constructions of the West and "Elizabeth Prodromou Eastern Orthodox Constructions of and "the West and " in the Post-Communist Political Discourse: the Cases of the Romanian and Russian Orthodox ChurchesLucian Turcescu The Heresy of Anti-Papism: An Orthodox PerspectiveJohn Panteleimon Manoussakis (In)Voluntary Ecumenism: Dumitru Staniloae's Interaction with the West as Open SobornicityRadu Bordeianu