Georgian Christian Thought and Its Cultural Context

Cornelia B. Horn, Ph.D. (2001), Dr. phil. habil. (2011) is a Senior Researcher at the University of Tübingen and a Research Fellow at The Catholic University of America. Author of Asceticism and Christological Controversy in Fifth-Century Palestine: The Career of Peter the Iberian (Oxford, 2006).Basil Lourié, Ph.D. (2002), Dr.phil.habil. (2008), is the Editor of Scrinium. Revue de patrologie, d'hagiographie critique et d'histoire ecclésiastique. He has many publications on the Christian Orient, including Peter the Iberian and Dionysius the Areopagite, Scrinium 6 (2010) 143-212.

• Shalva Nutsubidze and His WorldSelected Bibliography of Shalva Nutsubidze’s Scholarly WorksTamara Nutsubidze – Shalva Nutsubidze: From Alethology to Neoplatonism.Demur Jalaghonia – Alethology as the First PhilosophyEpoch of the Corpus AreopagiticumChristopher Haas – Geopolitics and Georgian Identity in Late Antiquity: the Dangerous World of Vakhtang GorgasaliCornelia Horn – Transgressing Claims to Sacred Space: The Advantage of the Portability of Relics in the Christological Conflicts in Syria-Palestine in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries CETuomo Lankila – The Corpus Areopagiticum and Proclus’ Divine Interface Basil Lourié – Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite: An Approach to the Intensional SemanticsDavid Shengelia – The Author of the Scholia to the Doctrina PatrumYouhanna Nessim Youssef – Severus of Antioch as Canonist in the Copto-Arabic TraditionAlexander Toepel – Zur Bedeutung der Begriffe ‚Hypostase‘ und ‚Prosopon‘ bei Babai dem GroßenIoane Petritsi and His TimeLela Alexidze – One in the Beings’ and ‚One within Us’: Basis of the Union with the One in Ioane Petritsi’s Interpretation of Proclus’ Elements of TheologyLevan Gigineishvili – On Ioane Petritsi’s Preface to His Commented Translation of the Book of Psalms [with the first English tr. and a new edition of the Georgian text]Damana Melikishvili – Ioane Petritsi and John Italus on Two Original CausesMaia Raphava – Georgian Translations of Nicetas Stethatos’s Epistles (According to Arsen Iqaltoeli’s Dogmatikon) [with the editio princeps of a letter lost in Greek].Shota Rustaveli and Georgian CultureElguja Khintibidze – Towards Rustaveli’s Place in Medieval European-Christian ThoughtMaka Elbakidze, Irma Ratiani – Shota Rustaveli’s Romance The Knight in the Panther’s Skin in the Context of European Chivalric Romance: An Anthropological ApproachMikheil Makharadze – Philosophical Ideas of the Corpus Areopagiticum in “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin”N. Doborjgenidze – Religious Inculturation and Problems of Social History of the Georgian Language Adam McCollum – The Application of Thought to Language Learning: An Experiment in the Study of Old Georgian.