Andrew Louth examines all the traditions on which Denys' work draws: the Fourth Century Greek theologians, pagan philosophy and Syrian Christian thought. The corpus of Denys the Areopagite appeared in the sixth century and have since been deeply influential on Christian thinking both in East and West. Who their author was remains a mystery but in this book Professor Louth documents and comments on his compelling vision of the beauty of God's world and his revelation, together with his profound awareness of the ultimate mystery of the unknowable God who utterly transcends all being.

Denys the Areopagite (Outstanding Christian Thinkers)

Religion & Spirituality

Andrew Louth

Christian Books & Bibles

Continuum International Publishing

Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology

SPCK Publishing

Professor Andrew Louth shows how the Protestant theologian Karl Barth, in his approach to the mystery of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, opens up a fresh approach to Mary, the Mother of the Lord. Barth's insights are of particular significance for dialogue between the Churches.

Mary and the mystery of the Incarnation: An essay on the Mother of God in the theology of Karl Barth (Fairacres publication ; no. 67)

Fairacres Publications

Denys the Areopagite

Morehouse Publishing

This Festschrift honors the retirement of Bishop Kallistos Ware from thirty-five years of university teaching. It celebrates his joyful heart, which radiates a spirituality of one who has found his monastic "desert" among the "dreaming spires" of academia, and his "cell" in the university lecture room. The Festschrift comprises articles based on historical, theological, and spiritual themes - some of which are listed here: Ã‚Â• "The Greek Writings Attributed to Saint Ephrem the Syrian," by Ephrem Lash Ã‚Â• "Embodied Word and New Creation: Some Modern Orthodox Insights Concerning the Material World," by Elizabeth Theokritoff Ã‚Â• "The Theology of the Philokalia," by Andrew Louth Ã‚Â• "Faithfulness and Creativity," by John Behr Ã‚Â• "The Vision of God and the Form of Glory," by Alexander Golitzin Ã‚Â• "Creation, Cross and Resurrection in Early Welsh Poetry," by A.M. (Donald) Allchin Ã‚Â• "On Good and Evil," by Thomas Hopko

Abba: The Tradition of Orthodoxy in the West (Festschrift for Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia)

Dimitri E. Conomos

St. Vladimirs Seminary Press

This book is among the finest critiques of the Enlightenment's ways of knowing, coupled with a winsome description of a distinctly Christian alternative. Responding to what he sees as a "division and fragmentation" both in theology and the larger culture due to "the one-sided way we have come to seek and recognize truth...manifest in the way in which all concern with truth has been relinquished to the sciences," Louth sets out to describe the source of that fragmentation and to challenge the notion that we must "accept the lot bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment." He carefully reviews central themes of several precursors who have already forged a critique of the epistemological imperialism of the Enlightenment, principally Giambattista Vico, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, who in distinct ways demonstrated the legitimacy of the humanities' unique apprehension of truth. Further relativizing Enlightenment claims, Michael Polanyi proposed that science itself depends on non-empirical elements of investigation for its method to function, what he termed "the tacit dimension." It is here that Louth sees a "pattern underlying the apprehension of truth" that is strikingly similar to that of the Fathers of the Church, who set forth an approach to knowing and experiencing truth that ultimately can be "seen and heard and handled" (1 John 1:1-3), but only by those who reside in the bosom of the Church's tradition and avail themselves of ways of knowing unique to it. Louth's rather brilliant rehabilitation of the Fathers' use of allegory in scriptural interpretation, which interweaves Scripture and tradition seamlessly, illustrates this approach. The matrix of allegory requires and manifests the "tacit dimension" of the guidance of the Spirit, and underlines the theologian's need to hear Him. Or as Evagrios of Pontus might put it, "Knowledge of God-the breast of the Lord. To recline there-the making of a theologian."

Discerning the Mystery

Eighth Day Press

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