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: Introduction
Part I: The Corpus in its Historical Setting
2: Beate Regina Suchla: The Dionysian Corpus
3: Tim Riggs: Content of the Dionysian Corpus
4: Maximos Costas: Dionysius the Areopagite and the New Testament
5: Mark Edwards: Christian Apophaticism before Dionysius
6: Bogdan G. Bucur: Philo and Clement of Alexandria
7: Ilaria L. E. Ramelli: Origen, Evagrius, and Dionysius
8: Michael Motia: Dionysius and Gregory of Nyssa
9: Charles Stang: Dionysius, Iamblichus, and Proclus
10: Mark Edwards and John Dillon: God in Dionysius and the Later Neoplatonists
Part II: Dionysius in the East
11: 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 Corpus
13: Beate Regina Suchla: John of Scythopolis and the Dionysian Corpus
14: Maximos Constas: Maximus the Confessor and the Reception of Dionysius the Areopagite
15: Mark Edwards and Dimitrios Pallis: Dionysius and John of Damascus
16: George Arabatzis: Theodore the Studite and Dionysius
17: Antonio Rigo: Dionysius from Niketas Stethatos to Gregory the Sinaite (and Gregory Palamas)
18: Torstein Theodor Tollefsen: Gregory Palamas and Dionysius
19: Georgios Steiris: Pletho and Dionysius
Part III: Dionysius in the West
20: Deirdre Carabine: Occulti Manifestatio: the Journey to God in Dionysius and Eriugena
21: Mark Edwards: John Sarracenus and his Influence
22: Declan Lawell: Robert Grosseteste, Translator of Dionysius
23: Monica Tobon: Bonaventure and Dionysius
24: Paul Rorem: Hugh of St Victor and Dionysius
25: Declan Lawell: Thomas Gallus: Affective Dionysianism
26: Wayne J. Hankey: Dionysius in Albertus Magnus and his Student Thomas Aquinas
27: Mark Edwards: Dionysius in Dante
28: Peter Tyler: The Carthusians and the Cloud of Unknowing
29: Theo Kobusch translated by Mark Edwards: Dionysius the Areopagite and Nicholas of Cusa
30: Mark Edwards with the assistance of Michael Allen: Marsilio Ficino and the Dionysian Corpus
Part IV
31: Denis J.-J. Robichaud: Valla and Erasmus on the Dionysian Question
32: Johannes Zachhuber: Luther on Dionysius
33: Johannes Zachhuber: Dionysius and the Lutheran Tradition
34: Andrew Louth: Dionysius' Reception in the English-Speaking World
35: Christian Schäfer: Hugo Koch and Josef Stiglmayr on Dionysius and Proclus
36: Mark Edwards: Three Theologians: Dean Inge, Vladimir Lossky, and Von Balthasar
37: Dimitrios Pallis: The Receptoin of Dionysius in Modern Greek Theology and Scholarship
38: Timothy D. Knepper: Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion
39: Ysabel de Andia translated by Mark Edwards: Dionysius as a Mystic
40: György Geréby: On the Theology of Dionysius