The Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite

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).

• 1: IntroductionPart I: The Corpus in its Historical Setting2: Beate Regina Suchla: The Dionysian Corpus3: Tim Riggs: Content of the Dionysian Corpus4: Maximos Costas: Dionysius the Areopagite and the New Testament5: Mark Edwards: Christian Apophaticism before Dionysius6: Bogdan G. Bucur: Philo and Clement of Alexandria7: Ilaria L. E. Ramelli: Origen, Evagrius, and Dionysius8: Michael Motia: Dionysius and Gregory of Nyssa9: Charles Stang: Dionysius, Iamblichus, and Proclus10: Mark Edwards and John Dillon: God in Dionysius and the Later NeoplatonistsPart II: Dionysius in the East11: 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 Corpus13: Beate Regina Suchla: John of Scythopolis and the Dionysian Corpus14: Maximos Constas: Maximus the Confessor and the Reception of Dionysius the Areopagite15: Mark Edwards and Dimitrios Pallis: Dionysius and John of Damascus16: George Arabatzis: Theodore the Studite and Dionysius17: Antonio Rigo: Dionysius from Niketas Stethatos to Gregory the Sinaite (and Gregory Palamas)18: Torstein Theodor Tollefsen: Gregory Palamas and Dionysius19: Georgios Steiris: Pletho and DionysiusPart III: Dionysius in the West20: Deirdre Carabine: Occulti Manifestatio: the Journey to God in Dionysius and Eriugena21: Mark Edwards: John Sarracenus and his Influence22: Declan Lawell: Robert Grosseteste, Translator of Dionysius23: Monica Tobon: Bonaventure and Dionysius24: Paul Rorem: Hugh of St Victor and Dionysius25: Declan Lawell: Thomas Gallus: Affective Dionysianism26: Wayne J. Hankey: Dionysius in Albertus Magnus and his Student Thomas Aquinas27: Mark Edwards: Dionysius in Dante28: Peter Tyler: The Carthusians and the Cloud of Unknowing29: Theo Kobusch translated by Mark Edwards: Dionysius the Areopagite and Nicholas of Cusa30: Mark Edwards with the assistance of Michael Allen: Marsilio Ficino and the Dionysian CorpusPart IV31: Denis J.-J. Robichaud: Valla and Erasmus on the Dionysian Question32: Johannes Zachhuber: Luther on Dionysius33: Johannes Zachhuber: Dionysius and the Lutheran Tradition34: Andrew Louth: Dionysius' Reception in the English-Speaking World35: Christian Schäfer: Hugo Koch and Josef Stiglmayr on Dionysius and Proclus36: Mark Edwards: Three Theologians: Dean Inge, Vladimir Lossky, and Von Balthasar37: Dimitrios Pallis: The Receptoin of Dionysius in Modern Greek Theology and Scholarship38: Timothy D. Knepper: Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion39: Ysabel de Andia translated by Mark Edwards: Dionysius as a Mystic40: 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.