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"“Ousia in Aristotle’s Categories”, Logique et Analyse, 53 (210), 211-243,
June 2010 (ISSN 0024-5836). Original title: The Importance of Aristotle's views on
Ousia in the Categories for the understanding of Aristotle’s dictum: “τὸ ὄν πολλαχῶς
λέγεται” in Metaphysics: The road to Rhetoric and its use in Logic and Metaphysics
or Against Some of the Essentialist and Rationalist Readings of Aristotle"

The result of a colloquium organised by the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies (Cambridge, UK), Divine Essence and Divine Energies offers a rich repository of diverse opinion about the distinction between essence and energy in Orthodox Christianity – a doctrine which lies at the heart of the often fraught fault line between East and West, and which, in this book, inspires a lively dialogue between the contributors.

The contents of the book revolve around several key questions: In what way were the Aristotelian concepts of ousia and energeia used by the Church Fathers, and to what extent were their meanings modified in the light of the Christological and Trinitarian doctrines? What theological function does the essence-energy distinction fulfil in Eastern Orthodoxy with respect to theology, anthropology, and the doctrine of creation? What are the differences and similarities between the notions of divine presence and participation in seminal Christian writings, and what is the relationship between the essence-energy distinction and Western ideas of divine presence?

A valuable addition to the dialogue between Eastern and Western Christianity, this book will be of great interest to any reader seeking a rigorously academic insight into the wealth of scholarly opinion about the essence-energy distinction.

“Ousia in Aristotle’s Categories”, Logique et Analyse, 53 (210), June 2010, pp. 211-243, (ISSN 0024-5836). Original title: The Importance of Aristotle's views on Ousia in the Categories for the understanding of Aristotle’s dictum: “τὸ ὄν πολλαχῶς λέγεται” in Metaphysics: The road to Rhetoric and its use in Logic and Metaphysics or Against Some of the Essentialist and Rationalist Readings of Aristotle (here I propose that Ousia in Aristotle's Categories cannot be understood and interpreted properly if one does not consult the Poetics and the Rhetoric; this goes against the traditional interpretative route of associating the Categories only with the logical works and the Metaphysics).

For many contemporary Orthodox theologians the distinction between divine energy and divine essence belongs to the very core of the Orthodox tradition and has no equivalent in the West.This position has been restated and developed by Prof David Bradshaw in his crucial
publication Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom (Cambridge: CUP, 2004). Yet the views expressed in this book have not remained uncontested. The present volume takes Bradshaw’s work as the starting point for an ecumenical debate about this doctrine. Leading Anglican, Calvinist and Roman Catholic, as well as Orthodox, theologians are given the opportunity to critically assess the nature and signifi cance of this doctrine from a historical, theological and philosophical perspective.
The authors contributing to this volume present very different and often mutually incompatible narratives, but all of them try to answer some of the following questions: In what way were the Aristotelian concepts of ousia and energeia used by the Church Fathers and how are they
related to the Christological and Trinitarian doctrines? What theological function does the essence-energy distinction fulfi l in Eastern Orthodoxy? Is it possible to identify different notions of divine presence and participation in the Cappadocians, Dionysius the Areopagite,
Maximus the Confessor and Gregory Palamas? What is the relationship between the essence energy distinction and theWestern ideas of divine presence in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Martin Luther, John Calvin and Karl Barth? How is this doctrine related to
Kantian and post-Kantian thought?
This collection of essays originated from a colloquium organised by the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies (Cambridge, UK). However, the number of papers and the scope of the questions discussed in Divine Essence and Divine Energies by far exceed the original conference programme.
Contributors
Dr Constantinos Athanasopoulos (The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, UK)
Prof David Bradshaw (University of Kentucky)
Prof Roy Clouser (University of New Jersey)
Rev Prof Antoine Levy OP (Studium Catholicum, Helsinki/University of Helsinki)
Rev Prof Nikolaos Loudovikos (University Academy of Thessaloniki)
Prof Georgios Martzelos (University of Thessaloniki)
Prof John Milbank (University of Nottingham)
Dr Christoph Schneider (The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, UK)
Dr Nick Trakakis (Australian Catholic University)
Metropolitan Vasilios (Karayiannis) of Constantia and Ammochostos (Cyprus)

“Christian Mysticism and Food” in Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics, edited by
Paul B. Thompson and David M. Kaplan (Springer Publ.), 2014 (ISBN: 978-94-007-6167-4 (Online)).
Link to the live Encyclopedia entry here: http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-
007-6167-4_436-6

Triune God: Incomprehensible but Knowable— The Philosophical and Theological
Significance of St Gregory Palamas for Contemporary Philosophy and Theology, edited by
Constantinos Athanasopoulos, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015 (in English), ISBN (10): 1-4438-
8055-8; ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-8055-8. Webpage: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/triune-god

Triune God: Incomprehensible but Knowable— The Philosophical and Theological
Significance of St Gregory Palamas for Contemporary Philosophy and Theology, edited by
Constantinos Athanasopoulos, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015 (in English), ISBN (10): 1-4438-
8055-8; ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-8055-8. Webpage: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/triune-god

Abstract
In what follows, I discuss what I mean by Orthodox Mysticism in Philosophy and Theology
with specific reference to Ps. Dionysius the Areopagite, St. Symeon the New Theologian and
St. Nicholaos Cabasilas. I then discuss what I take to be the goal of the Orthodox mystic in
Philosophy and Theology, i.e., ecstatic rapture and union with the Triune God through glorification
or deification. My investigation will finish with an examination of how the Orthodox
mystical approach to the Triune God differs from the Roman-Catholic approach to God
perceived as ‘Esse ipsum subsistens’ and the two different forms of mysticism that these two
perceptions of God imply.
Keywords : cloud of non-knowledge, doxastic proportionality, esoteric intellectualism,
ontology, Orthodox Mysticism, synergos