ABSTRACT

The modern Orthodox dogmatic account of God’s providence and human freedom, which was widely accepted from the fifteenth century until the 1960s, has its origin in Gennadios Scholarios and a Greek debate over fate and human freedom. After sketching the context for this dogmatic development, this chapter outlines Scholarios’s theological achievement and suggests that it is an authentic development of the earlier Greek theological tradition as it has been systematized by John Damascene.