EDWARDS Mark, PALLIS Dimitrios and STEIRIS Georgios (eds.), “The Orthodox Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite”, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, (xiii + 737 pages), ISBN 978-0-19-881079-7

Abstract

There have been a number of sustained efforts in the last decades by researchers to decipher the identity of the author of the Dionysian Corpus (CD), to determine the purpose of his writings and to evaluate the impact he had on Christian philosophy, theology, art and literature, politics and so on. Recent collective volumes from symposia,[1] articles in dictionaries and encyclopedias, and books have proposed new avenues of research or updated what is known on this subject, reinvigorating debate and interest in this field.

Tzotcho Boiadjiev, Georgi Kapriev, Andreas Speer (eds.), Die Dionysius-Rezeption im Mittelalter Internationales Kolloquium in Sofia vom 8. bis 11. April 1999, col. “Encounters of Medieval Philosophy”, 9, Turnhout: Brepols, 2000; Georgi Kapriev (ed.), The Dionysian Traditions. 24th Annual Colloquium of the S.I.E.P.M., September 9-11, 2019, Varna, Bulgaria, col. “Encounters of Medieval Philosophy”, 23, Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. It is also worth mentioning here Andrei A. Orlov (ed.), Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism. Studies in Honor of Alexander Golitzin, col. “Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae”, 160, Leiden: Brill, 2020.