The Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite
, by Edwards, Mark; Pallis, Dimitrios; Steiris, GeorgiosNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780198810797 | 0198810792
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 5/25/2022
The Dionysian corpus was a body of writings falsely ascribed to Dionysius the Areopagite, a convert of St. Paul, actually written in around 500 A.D. This handbook brings together forty papers by over thirty contributors on the the antecedents, the content and the reception of the corpus.
The Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite 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, Nicholas 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 Grossesteste 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. Essays on Dionysius as a mystic and a
political theologian conclude the volume.
The Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite 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, Nicholas 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 Grossesteste 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. Essays on Dionysius as a mystic and a
political theologian conclude the volume.