Re-thinking Dionysius the Areopagite

Sarah Coakley is the Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. She previously taught at Lancaster, Oxford, and Harvard Universities.Charles M. Stang is Assistant Professor of Early Christian Thought at Harvard Divinity School.

• Introduction: Re-Thinking Dionysius the Areopagite: Sarah Coakley (University of Cambridge). 1. Dionysius, Paul, and the Significance of the Pseudonym: Charles M. Stang (Harvard University).2. The Earliest Syriac Reception of Dionysius: István Perczel (Central European University).3. The Reception of Dionysius up to Maximus the Confessor: Andrew Louth (Durham University).4. The Reception of Dionysius in the Byzantine World: Maximus to Palamas: Andrew Louth (Durham University).5. The Early Latin Dionysius: Eriugena and Hugh of St. Victor: Paul Rorem (Princeton Theological Seminary).6. The Medieval Affective Dionysian Tradition: Boyd Taylor Coolman (Boston College).7. Albert, Aquinas, and Dionysius: David Burrell, C.S.C (University of Notre Dame) and Isabelle Moulin.8. Dionysius and some Late Medieval Mystical Theologians of Northern Europe: Denys Turner (Yale University).9. Cusanus on Dionysius: The Turn to Speculative Theology: Peter Casarella (Depaul University).10. Luther and Dionysius: Beyond Mere Negations: Piotr J. Malysz (Harvard University).11. Dionysian Thought in 16th Century Spanish Mystical Theology: Luis M. Girón-Negrón (Harvard University).12. The Reception of Dionysius in 20th Century Eastern Orthodoxy: Paul L. Gavrilyuk (University of Saint Thomas).13. Dionysius, Derrida, and the Critique of ‘Ontotheology’: Mary-Jane Rubenstein (Wesleyan University).14. Dionysius in Hans Urs von Balthasar and Jean-Luc Marion: Tamsin Jones (Harvard University).Index

"Re-Thinking Dionysius the Areopagite is a helpful tool in navigating the great tidal wave of Dionysian-inspired literature." (Journal of Church History, September 2010)