Pseudo-Dionysius and Gregory Palamas the Byzantine synthesis of Eastern Patristics
The book is a source comparative study of the views of Gregory Palamas and Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite on man's ability to know God. The author distances herself from the opinions of other researchers who prove Pseudo-Dionysius' dependence on the Neoplatonic tradition. She asks about the p...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, Germany :
Peter Lang
[2022]
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Philosophy and Cultural Studies Revisited / Historisch-Genetische Studien Zur Philosophie und Kulturgeschichte
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009863805906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Studies in the Presence of Pseudo-Dionysian Thought in the Works of Palamas
- 1.1 The Consistency of the Palamite Doctrine with the Patristic Tradition of the Eastern Church
- 1.2 The Relation of Gregory Palamas' Doctrine to the Thoughts of the Western Church and Protestant Theology
- 1.3 Research in Poland on Gregory Palamas' Thought
- 2 Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite: The Person and His Thinking
- 2.0 Introduction
- 2.1 Scholarship on Pseudo-Dionysius' Neoplatonism
- 2.2 The Issue of the Reception of Corpus Areopagiticum in the Eastern Church from the Sixth to the Fourteenth Centuries
- 2.3 Doctrinal Commentary: "Scholia" by John of Scythopolis and "Mystagogia" by Maximus the Confessor
- 2.4 Corpus Areopagiticum in the Byzantine Liturgy and Patristic Thought
- 3 Gregory Palamas and His Era
- 3.1 The Life and Work of Palamas Against the Background of Fourteenth-Century Byzantium
- 3.2 Discussions with Barlaam and Akindynos. Circumstances of the Creation of Works, Treatises and Synodal Volumes
- 3.3 The Dispute over Gregory Palamas' Doctrine Against the Backdrop of Church-State Relations
- 4 The Issue of Knowing God in the Thought of Pseudo-Dionysius
- 4.1 The Patristic Tradition
- 4.2 Theological Discourse: Ways of Knowing God According to Pseudo-Dionysius
- 4.3 Onomatodoxia and Cataphatic Theology
- 4.4 Symbolic Theology as a Path Upward
- 4.5 Apophatic Theology
- 5 Conditions for the Possibility of True Knowledge of God According to Gregory Palamas
- 6 The Palamite Distinction of Divine Essence and Un-created Energies as the Basis for the Metaphysics of Light
- 7. The Light of Good and the Light of Knowledge in the Thought of Pseudo-Dionysius and Gregory Palamas.
- 8. Palamas' Metaphysics of Light in Relation to the Hierarchical and Symbolic Structure of Pseudo-Dionysius' World
- 8.1 The Cognitive Dimension of Hierarchy and the Role of Symbol
- 8.2 The Moral Aspect of the Dionysian Hierarchy as Interpreted by Gregory Palamas
- 9 Christ as the Foundation of Knowledge in the Thought of Pseudo-Dionysius and Gregory Palamas
- 10. The Areopagite's Thought in the Context of Palamite Anthropology
- 11 Unifying Vision
- Conclusion
- Bibliography.
