The Personalist Trinitarian Ontology of John Zizioulas
by Dario Chiapetti (2022)
The first important feature of Dario Chiapetti’s book is its systematic exposition of Zizioulas’ personalist trinitarian ontology gathered from a great many of the metropolitan's occasional writings. Chiapetti carefully examines the key notions of ousia (being), hypostasis (subsistent entity), tropos hyparxeōs (mode of existence), prosōpon (person as a relational concept), and koinonia (communion) in their patristic setting and shows convincingly that Zizioulas’ reflection on these notions, while treating them creatively, does not distort their meaning as determined by patristic usage… Dario Chiapetti in this outstanding book faces the[se] challenges squarely, vindicating Zizioulas as an accurate patristic scholar an enabling us to appreciate in considerable detail the brilliant structure and coherence of his trinitarian thinking. — Norman Russell
