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Philosophy and Political Issues
Philosophy and Political Issues
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Philosophical and Theological
Question in Late Byzantium
George Pachymere’s Paraphrasis of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite’s De divinis nominibus
edited by Christos Ath. Terezis
& Lydia Chr. Petridou
George Pachymeres (1242-c.1310) is con- sidered one of the most significant repre- sentatives of the Palaeolagan Renaissance in literature and arts, which provided a new style to the spiritual paths. His entire work radiates Aristotelian thought. How- ever, his main contribution lies in the fact that he established the philosophical and theological requirements for a scientific and rational understanding of the sensible world as a renewed theophany, which is clearly compatible with the principles of the Christian faith.
This study focuses on George Pachymeres’s Paraphrasis of Pseudo-Dionysius’ De divi- nis nominibus, explicitly investigating the fourth chapter of the treatise, which ac- cording to Pseudo-Dionysius is entitled “On the Good, on the Light, on the Beauty, on the Eros, on the Ecstasy, on the Zeal, and on the fact that evil is not a being.”
224 pages, softbound, published in 2020 price $25
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After Secularization
Religious Faith in Modern Europe, Russia, and Asia
by Stephen C. Headly
After Secularization deals with the current place of religion in four regions: Russia, Indonesia (Java), India, and Western Eu- rope. What factors allow religions a re- newed expression of faiths in these cul- tures once the exported versions of the humanism of the Enlightenment and the humanism of post-modernity have failed to provide a strong hierarchy of values, a transcendence needed to hold society to- gether? A humanism that seeks to isolate the individual from the imagined threats of collective religious belief convinces few- er and fewer people since the promised progress that was supposed to protect our planet is in fact putting it in peril. In Chris- tian revelation, we respond with a faith that accepts our vulnerability as inner honesty and it provides us with the cour- age to overcome all the deaths that Christ faced down on the cross. The sacrifice of the Son of God makes a new sense of life on earth for those who have been discour- aged by the failures of secularization.
256 pages, softbound, published in 2020 price $20
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