Andrew Louth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3890642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Louth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Louth |
| SIGNATURE | LOUTH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Why Read Pavel Florensky?
Selected Essays, Volume II: Studies in Theology
Pagans and Christians on Providence
Beginning by contradicting Dodds’ remark about providence playing a similar role in Neoplatonism to predestination and grace in Christian theology, the essay explores the central role of providence in Greek thought, whether pagan or Christian. The Greek doctrine of providence, πρόνοια, is rooted in Plato’s thought, where it is a key doctrine, problems with which are put down either to the inherent lack of perfection in a changeable cosmos or to h…
Selected Essays, Volume I: Studies in Patristics
Chrysostomos A. Stamoulis, Holy Beauty: Prolegomena to an Orthodox Philokalic Aesthetics
Christian ethics.For myself, as a New Testament scholar, resonances with, inter alia, Matthew's Gospel (such as the little 'community rule' in Chapter 18) are particularly strong.As such, Adam's work opens up areas for further reflection
Eastern Orthodoxy and Ecumenism: Some Reflections
This article reviews a set of papers in a special issue of The Ecumenical Review on “Theological Exchanges: The Ecumenical Reception of Orthodoxy,” which examines the reception of Orthodoxy by other theological traditions through the mediation of ecumenical dialogue. The papers display a wide variety of approaches, many introducing, although in different ways, the nature of engagement with the Orthodox by the different Christian bodies represente…
John Binns, The T&T Clark History of Monasticism: The Eastern Tradition
The Paschal Heart of John’s Gospel
The Eastern Orthodox Tradition
This chapter on Eastern Orthodox ecclesiology consists of three parts. The first section discusses the fundamental theological understanding of the church as the Body of Christ, the Bride of the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. The second section looks at the four notes of the church, which characterize the church as it exists in the world: unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity. The third section, ‘The Church in the World’,…
Pagans and Christians on Providence
La Théologie byzantine et sa tradition, I/1: (VIe–VIIe s.) Edited by Carmelo Guiseppe Conticello . (Corpvs Christianorvm) Pp. 805 incl. 11 ills. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. €150. 978 2 503 51715 5
La Théologie byzantine et sa tradition, I/1: (VIe–VIIe s.) Edited by Carmelo Guiseppe Conticello . (Corpvs Christianorvm) Pp. 805 incl. 11 ills. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. €150. 978 2 503 51715 5 - Volume 68 Issue 4
The Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700–1700: An Anthology of Sources
The Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700–1700: An Anthology of Sources." Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 27(4), pp. 495–496
Andrei Pleşu, On Angels: Exposition for a Post-Modern World
Sergius Bulgakov, Unfading Light: Contemplations and Speculations
Orthodox Christians and Islam in the Postmodern Age
Orthodox Christians and Islam in the Postmodern Age, by Andrew M. Sharp, Leiden, Brill, 2012, viii + 258 pp., €107.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-90-04-22803-0 For the last decade or so, a central issue i
Constructing the Apostolic Past: The Case of Dionysius the Areopagite
Somewhere around the 620s, there began to appear in the Byzantine world references to works allegedly by Dionysius the Areopagite, that is, the judge of the court of the Areopagus converted by Paul the apostle according to the account in Acts 17. The corpus of works consisted of two works, on the heavenly and earthly church respectively, the Celestial Hierarchy and the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy; a treatise called the Divine Names ; a short treatis…
Charles M. Stang, Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: “No Longer I”
Maximus the Confessor, The Life of the Virgin
Sergius Bulgakov, Icons and the Name of God
Easter
Easter, or Pascha, is the Christian feast of the Passover, which celebrates the resurrection of Christ from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion.
Simplicius
Simplicius was a sixth‐century ce Neoplatonist, one of the seven philosophers who left Athens for Ktesiphon after the Athenian Academy was closed by Justinian in 529.
Church institutions
By the end of the second century CE , as Christianity began to spread among the populations of the cities in the Mediterranean world, there was emerging the notion that the local church consisted of the Christians of a city, led by their Bishop.
Schism
Schism, as distinct from heresy, refers to divisions in the Christian Church over issues other than doctrine, usually matters of discipline. This distinction, though found in the Patristic period, is not always very clear, however. In the mind of the Fathers, schism was more dangerous even than heresy, for it sought to divide the Body of Christ, the Church. However, the conviction that Christ would preserve his Church intact meant that schism was…
Demetrios (saint)
Demetrios was one of the military saints of Byzantium. We know little about the historical Demetrios.
Magic, Byzantine
Magic was a concept that was recognized in Byzantium and deplored.
The Reception of Dionysius in the Byzantine World: Maximus to Palamas
The first major theologian to engage the CD in the Byzantine world is Maximus the Confessor. His is a highly individual engagement, but without any of the embarrassment alleged by many modern scholars. Dionysian influence in Byzantium seems to have been mostly confined to the monastic tradition, and is traced here, in outline, from Symeon the New Theologian to Gregory Palamas. Various issues recur: the distinction between apophatic and kataphatic…
Chrysostomos A. Stamoulis, Holy Beauty: Prolegomena to an Orthodox Philokalic Aesthetics
Christian ethics.For myself, as a New Testament scholar, resonances with, inter alia, Matthew's Gospel (such as the little 'community rule' in Chapter 18) are particularly strong.As such, Adam's work opens up areas for further reflection
The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: From Plato to Denys
Scholars of the patristic era have paid more attention to the dogmatic tradition in their period than to the development of Christian mystical theology. Andrew Louth aims to redress the balance. Recognizing that the intellectual form of this tradition was decisively influenced by Platonic ideas of the soul's relationship to God, Louth begins with an examination of Plato and Platonism. The discussion of the Fathers which follows shows how the myst…
Short review and book note
David Dean Shulman, Tamil temple myths: Sacrifice and divine marriage in the South Indian Saiva tradition, Princeton University Press 1980. 472 pp. £16.70 Hubert Bucher, Spirits and power, an analysis of shona cosmology, Cape Town, Oxford University Press 1981. 231pp. £8.75 H. Heissig, The religions of Mongolia, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul 1980. £7.50 Roy C. Amore and Larry D. Shinn, Lustful maidens and ascetic kings: Buddhist and Hindu stor…
The history of the church from Christ to Constantine
Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years. Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, broke new ground in writing the History and provided a model for all later ecclesiastical historians. In tracing the history of the Church from the time of Christ to the Great Persecution at the beginning of the fourth century, and ending with the conve…
Discerning the Mystery
This book seeks to exorcize the spectre of the Enlightenment by drawing on H. G. Gadamer's demonstration of ‘how little the traditions in which we stand are weakened’ by the legacy of the Enlightenment. It then applies these insights to theology where the importance of tradition and the unity between theology and spirituality are rediscovered
Lancelot Andrewes, the Preacher (1555-1626): The origins of the mystical theology of the Church of England
A study of the theology of Lancelot Andrewes ('England's Bossuet'), illustrating his insights with long quotations from the sermons. It shows how Andrewes stands close to the theology of the Greek Fathers whom he had studied deeply.
Lancelot Andrewes, the Preacher (1555-1626): The Origins of the Mystical Theology of the Church of England.
Biographical sketch the Great Sermons of Lancelot Andrewes Christmas Lent Easter Whitsun the political festivals.
The Image of Heloise in English Literature
Etude comparative sur la representation du personnage d'Heloise dans les oeuvres de A. Pope, G. Moore et H. Waddell
The trivial sublime. Theology and American poetics
(1994). The trivial sublime. Theology and American poetics. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 449-450
Unity and Diversity in the Church of the Fourth Century
To look back to the early Church as a theologian and historian, and ask questions about her unity, is to enter on a long tradition, which goes back at least to the Reformation, if not to the Great Schism of 1054 itself. Once the Church had split, the various separated Christians looked back to justify their position in that tragedy. They scoured the early sources for evidence for and against episcopacy, papacy, authority confided to tradition or …
The Orthodox Dogmatic Theology of Dumitru Stăniloae
The German translation of the Orthodox Dogmatics of the Romanian theologian, Fr Dumitru Staniloae (d. 1993), was completed in 1995. This article sets it in the context of Staniloae’s life and work: his unremitting labour in making the Fathers available in Romanian, and his devotion to the greatest Byzantine theologian, Maximos the Confessor. Maximos’ emphasis on the cosmic dimension of the human is given full expression in Staniloae, as is the he…
Preacher and Audience: Studies in Early Christian and Byzantine Homiletics
This volume brings together thirteen studies on Greek-speaking preachers and audiences in a period from the beginning of the second century A.D. to the beginning of the tenth century which has largely been neglected in the modern literature. The chapters represent a collection of case studies of individual preachers or periods of homiletic activity and cover themes including the identity of Greek-speaking preachers, the circumstances of delivery,…
Palestine under the Arabs 650-750: The Crucible of Byzantine Orthodoxy
The period from the beginning of the seventh century to the middle of the ninth was decisive for the history of the Byzantine empire. At the beginning of the seventh century, the idea of the Roman, or Byzantine, empire as the political configuration of the Mediterranean world - something that the Emperor Justinian had done his best to restore - still seemed valid, though there were already significant cracks in the edifice. By the end of the seve…
Roman Cholij, Theodore the Studite. The Ordering of Holiness. Oxford Theological Monographs, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi + 275
"Theodore the Studite. The Ordering of Holiness.." Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 27(1), pp. 288–289
The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages
1University of Durham The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages Katherine LudwigJansen Princeton, NJPrinceton U.P. 2001xviii + 389£13.95
The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
The writings of the Church Fathers form a distinct body of literature that shaped the early church and built upon the doctrinal foundations of Christianity established within the New Testament. Christian literature in the period c.100–c.400 constitutes one of the most influential textual oeuvres of any religion. Written mainly in Greek, Latin and Syriac, Patristic literature emanated from all parts of the early Christian world and helped to exten…
Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
Theology, Contemplation and the University
Theology was one of the original faculties of the medieval university, which grew out of the earlier monastic and cathedral schools, where theology was central. The purpose of theology in monastic education was to provide not simply information about theological topics, but to prepare one to contemplate God, contemplation being the true knowledge of God. Contemplation as the goal of intellectual development, however, goes behind the Christian edu…
Beauty will Save the World”: The Formation of Byzantine Spirituality
In the period from the sixth to the eighth century, Byzantine spirituality came to assume its characteristic form. The one who called himself Dionysios the Areopagite, St Maximos the Confessor, and St John of Damascus all played a crucial role in articulating this spirituality, at the center of which is the divine beauty calling all of creation back to itself: A beauty, expressed in creation and the human fashioning of created, material reality, …
From the Exiles' Return to the Dedication Synod of Antioch
This chapter examines the complex events of 337-341, arguing that the returning exiles were probably not re-deposed on the basis of new synods, but of the earlier ones. The Dedication Synod of 341 was, if not the voice of the ‘moderate majority’ of Eastern bishops, at least a breath of fresh air on the Eastern ecclesiastical scene, allowing new voices to be heard such as that of Basil of Ancyra. The synod’s creeds and its reply to the letter of J…
The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition
Scholars of the patristic era have paid more attention to the dogmatic tradition in their period than to the development of Christian mystical theology. This book aims to redress the balance. Recognizing that the intellectual form of this tradition was decisively influenced by Platonic ideas of the soul’s relationship to God, the book begins with an examination of Plato and Platonism. The discussion of the Fathers which follows shows how the myst…
The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: From Plato to Denys
Scholars of the patristic era have paid more attention to the dogmatic tradition in their period than to the development of Christian mystical theology. Andrew Louth aims to redress the balance. Recognizing that the intellectual form of this tradition was decisively influenced by Platonic ideas of the soul's relationship to God, Louth begins with an examination of Plato and Platonism. The discussion of the Fathers which follows shows how the myst…
The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 3, Early Medieval Christianities, c.600-c.1100 (Cambridge History of Christianity)
The key focus of this book is the vitality and dynamism of all aspects of Christian experience from late antiquity to the First Crusade. By putting the institutional and doctrinal history firmly in the context of Christianity's many cultural manifestations and lived formations everywhere from Afghanistan to Iceland, this volume of The Cambridge History of Christianity emphasizes the ever-changing, varied expressions of Christianity at both local …
The Reception of Dionysius Up to Maximus the Confessor
There are various odd features about the initial reception of the Corpus Dionysiacum in the sixth century. The reception was, at first, slow and mainly concerned the few, controversial Christological assertions of the CD . The influence of the CD was mediated through a single edition, complete with introduction, variant readings, and scholia, all furnished by John of Scythopolis. The initial reception of the CD in the Syriac world seems very diff…
The Reception of Dionysius in the Byzantine World: Maximus to Palamas
The first major theologian to engage the CD in the Byzantine world is Maximus the Confessor. His is a highly individual engagement, but without any of the embarrassment alleged by many modern scholars. Dionysian influence in Byzantium seems to have been mostly confined to the monastic tradition, and is traced here, in outline, from Symeon the New Theologian to Gregory Palamas. Various issues recur: the distinction between apophatic and kataphatic…
Some Recent Works by Christos Yannaras in English Translation 1
This article reviews four recent English translations of works by the Greek thinker, Christos Yannaras. It sets Yannaras' work in its historical context, and draws out some of his fundamental themes: the centrality of the notion of the person, which is fulfilled in the self‐transcendence of love, the place of the apophatic, and the use of imagery and poetry in theology. It also seeks to contextualize the sometimes quite strident anti‐Westernism o…
The Divine Sense: The Intellect in Patristic Theology – By A. N. Williams
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