An Orthodox seminary professor once quipped sarcastically: “Orthodox theology was invented in a 1930’s Paris salon.” With some adjustment, this cynical remark may be regarded as expressing a certain truth. The paradigm of Orthodox theology in the modern age—its “style,” the envisioning of its contemporary task—was indeed refashioned in the West, sometime around the third decade of the twentieth century. This refashioning is generally associated with the idea of “neopatristic synthesis.”