Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite

This handbook brings together forty chapters on the antecedents, the content, and the reception of the Dionysian corpus, a body of writings falsely ascribed to Dionysius the Areopagite, a convert of St. Paul, but actually written in around 500 A.D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 1: Introduction


• Part I: The Corpus in its Historical Setting


• 2: Beate Regina Suchla: The Dionysian Corpus


• 3: Tim Riggs: Content of the Dionysian Corpus


• 4: Maximos Costas: Dionysius the Areopagite and the New Testament


• 5: Mark Edwards: Christian Apophaticism before Dionysius


• 6: Bogdan G. Bucur: Philo and Clement of Alexandria


• 7: Ilaria L. E. Ramelli: Origen, Evagrius, and Dionysius


• 8: Michael Motia: Dionysius and Gregory of Nyssa


• 9: Charles Stang: Dionysius, Iamblichus, and Proclus


• 10: Mark Edwards and John Dillon: God in Dionysius and the Later Neoplatonists


• Part II: Dionysius in the East


• 11: Emiliano Fiori: Dionysius the Areopagite in Syriac: The Translation of Sergius of Resh'ayna (Sixth Century)


• 12: István Perczel: Notes on the Earliest Greco-Syriac Reception of the Dionysian Corpus


• 13: Beate Regina Suchla: John of Scythopolis and the Dionysian Corpus


• 14: Maximos Constas: Maximus the Confessor and the Reception of Dionysius the Areopagite


• 15: Mark Edwards and Dimitrios Pallis: Dionysius and John of Damascus


• 16: George Arabatzis: Theodore the Studite and Dionysius


• 17: Antonio Rigo: Dionysius from Niketas Stethatos to Gregory the Sinaite (and Gregory Palamas)


• 18: Torstein Theodor Tollefsen: Gregory Palamas and Dionysius


• 19: Georgios Steiris: Pletho and Dionysius


• Part III: Dionysius in the West


• 20: Deirdre Carabine: Occulti Manifestatio: the Journey to God in Dionysius and Eriugena


• 21: Mark Edwards: John Sarracenus and his Influence


• 22: Declan Lawell: Robert Grosseteste, Translator of Dionysius


• 23: Monica Tobon: Bonaventure and Dionysius


• 24: Paul Rorem: Hugh of St Victor and Dionysius


• 25: Declan Lawell: Thomas Gallus: Affective Dionysianism


• 26: Wayne J. Hankey: Dionysius in Albertus Magnus and his Student Thomas Aquinas


• 27: Mark Edwards: Dionysius in Dante


• 28: Peter Tyler: The Carthusians and the Cloud of Unknowing


• 29: Theo Kobusch translated by Mark Edwards: Dionysius the Areopagite and Nicholas of Cusa


• 30: Mark Edwards with the assistance of Michael Allen: Marsilio Ficino and the Dionysian Corpus


• Part IV


• 31: Denis J.-J. Robichaud: Valla and Erasmus on the Dionysian Question


• 32: Johannes Zachhuber: Luther on Dionysius


• 33: Johannes Zachhuber: Dionysius and the Lutheran Tradition


• 34: Andrew Louth: Dionysius' Reception in the English-Speaking World


• 35: Christian Schäfer: Hugo Koch and Josef Stiglmayr on Dionysius and Proclus


• 36: Mark Edwards: Three Theologians: Dean Inge, Vladimir Lossky, and Von Balthasar


• 37: Dimitrios Pallis: The Receptoin of Dionysius in Modern Greek Theology and Scholarship


• 38: Timothy D. Knepper: Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion


• 39: Ysabel de Andia translated by Mark Edwards: Dionysius as a Mystic


• 40: György Geréby: On the Theology of Dionysius

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Mark Edwards has been Tutor in Theology at Christ Church, Oxford since 1993, and also University Lecturer/Associate Professor in Patristics in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. Since 2014 he has held the title Professor of Early Christian Studies. His books include Neoplatonic Saints (2000), Origen against Plato (2002), John through the Centuries (2003), Culture and Philosophy in the Age of Plotinus (2006), Catholicity and Heresy in the Early Church (2009), Image, Word and God in the Early Christian Centuries (2012), Religions of the Constantinian Empire (2015) and Aristotle and Early Christian Thought (2019).

Dimitrios Pallis is an independent researcher specializing in theology and philosophy in late antique Christian Platonism and modern Greek Orthodox thought. He is the author of twenty book chapters and research articles and a treatise in these areas. He has been awarded three prizes for studies on Dionysius the Areopagite from the University of Oxford, the University of Athens, and the Academy of Athens respectively. Recent publications include: A 'Neobyzantine' Cultural Proposal?: A Critical Appraisal of the Assimilation of Areopagitic Apophaticism in the Early Thought of Christos Yannaras (2017) and 'Constructed Self' and Christian Mysticism in Dionysius the Areopagite and his Place in the Orthodox Tradition (2018/2019).

Georgios Steiris is currently Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He previously taught at the University of Peloponnese and the Hellenic Open University, and was Visiting Professor at Jyväskylä University. He served as Secretary General of the Greek Philosophical Society from 2015 to 2016, and was awarded the Golden Jubilee Medal '80 years of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University'. He co-edited the volume Maximus the Confessor as a European Philosopher (2017).

Zusammenfassung

This handbook brings together forty chapters on the antecedents, the content, and the reception of the Dionysian corpus, a body of writings falsely ascribed to Dionysius the Areopagite, a convert of St. Paul, but actually written in around 500 A.D.

Zusatztext

The Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite is a well-constructed and attractive contemporary guide not only for scholars doing research on the Corpus Dionysiacum (henceforth CD), but also for those who belong to a wider readership and are interested in ancient thought.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mark (Professor Edwards
• Mitarbeit: Mark Edwards (Herausgeber), Dimitrios Pallis (Herausgeber), Georgios Steiris (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780198810797
• ISBN: 978-0-19-881079-7
• Seiten: 752
• Serie: Oxford Handbooks
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Christentum