Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite
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Biographical note
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).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 Española de Filosofía 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, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Studia Monastica
this volume constitutes an excellent Dionysian synthesis
Gustavo Ángel Riesgo, Revista Española de Filosofía 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
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.
Katelis Viglas, Byzantina Symmeikta 33
The volume edited by Georgios Steiris, Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Dimitrios Pallis, independent researcher of Christian Platonism of Late Antiquity and modern Greek theology, and Mark Edwards, Professor of Early Christian Studies at the University of Oxford, and for the publication of which a number of experts with international recognition collaborated, includes essays that examine the relationship of the Areopagite with earlier and later authors of the East and the West. Furthermore, the stance of Luther and his descendants towards the Dionysian corpus is studied, as well as the echoes of the latter in modern theology and philosophy.
George Kranidiotis, The Anthropos
The Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite is a welcome addition to Pseudo-Dionysian studies.
Sarah Klitenic Wear, Church History
Editors and copy editors worked carefully on this large volume. It is a model for handbooks.
Sarah Klitenic Wear, Church History