Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198810797
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 25/02/2022
Width: 17.6 cm
Height: 25.2 cm
This Handbook contains forty essays by an international team of experts 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 about 500 AD. The first section contains discussions of the genesis of the corpus, its Christian antecedents, and its Neoplatonic influences. In the second section, studies on the Syriac reception, the relation of the Syriac to the original Greek, and the editing of the Greek by John of Scythopolis are followed by contributions on the use of the corpus in such Byzantine authors as Maximus the Confessor, John of Damascus, Theodore the Studite, Niketas Stethatos, Gregory Palamas, and Gemistus Pletho. In the third section attention turns to the Western tradition, represented first by the translators John Scotus Eriugena, John Sarracenus, and Robert Grosseteste and then by such readers as the Victorines, the early Franciscans, Albert the Great, Aquinas, Bonaventure, Dante, the English mystics, Nicholas of Cusa, and Marsilio Ficino. The contributors to the final section survey the effect on Western readers of Lorenzo Valla's proof of the inauthenticity of the corpus and the subsequent exposure of its dependence on Proclus by Koch and Stiglmayr. The authors studied in this section include Erasmus, Luther and his followers, Vladimir Lossky, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Jacques Derrida, as well as modern thinkers of the Greek Church. Essays on Dionysius as a mystic and a political theologian conclude the volume.
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
The Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite surely represents one of the most complete and variegated texts on the reception of Dionysius we have at our disposal in scholarship, also managing to give the readers a consistent overview of the philosophy and theology of the author. * Clelia Attanasio, Clare College, Cambridge University, Heythrop Journal * The Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite is definitely a must read for everyone interested in this important and enigmatic figure of late antiquity, whose ideas have been so influential, yet often even controversial, for the past fifteen centuries. The handbook definitely justifies its title, as it is a volume useful as a comprehensive introduction to the Areopagite, but it will also be a valuable asset to those already initiated into the Dionysian
thought. Thus, I am sure that this book will be a must read for both specialists, as well as all those interested in late antique studies, church history, and ever exciting relationship between ancient philosophy and Christian theology. * Filip Ivanovic, Society of Biblical Literature * Numerous and varied merits * GUSTAVO RIESGO, Revista Espanola de Filosofia Medieval * ... a scientific approach that was necessary and creates bridges between traditions, confessional backgrounds and cultures and comes to speak about the multiple values of the works written by the authors from the beginning of Christianity. * Fr. PhD. Iuliu-Marius Morariu, "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Studia Monastica * this volume constitutes an excellent Dionysian synthesis * Gustavo Angel Riesgo, Revista Espanola de Filosofia Medieval * The major merit of this book, offering a different picture of what can be described as a spiritual, philosophical, and cultural legacy, is due mostly to the new exegetical and hermeneutical research instruments...so the Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite should be seen as a hallmark for the future reassessments in approaching philosophizing patterns of the Christian West vs. the Christian East, as of Medieval vs. Modern mind. * Corina Domnari, Institute for the Study of Values and Spirituality, Methexis Journal *