Pseudo-Dionysius and Gregory Palamas : the Byzantine synthesis of Eastern Patristics / Agnieszka Switkiewicz-Blandzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Świtkiewicz-Blandzi, Agnieszka, 1965- author.

Series:

Philosophy and Cultural Studies Revisited / Historisch-Genetische Studien Zur Philosophie und Kulturgeschichte

Philosophy and Cultural Studies Revisited / Historisch-Genetische Studien Zur Philosophie und Kulturgeschichte ; v.11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Gregory Palamas, Saint, 1296-1359.

Gregory Palamas.

Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite--Influence.

Pseudo-Dionysius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Peter Lang, [2022]

Summary:

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 place of Dionysian thought in the works of Palamas.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-631-88800-7

3-631-88799-X