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Reference Materials: for libraries, students and researchers in Patristic Theology.
The Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible, 1611.
A Patristic Greek Lexicon, G. W. H. Lampe (ed.), Oxford University Press,5th impression, 1978.
Greek-English Lexicon, H. G. Liddell and R. Scott (eds.), revised and augmented by H. S. Jones and R. McKenzie (et al.), Oxford University Press, repr. ed., 1977
Greek Lexicon of Roman and Byzantine Periods, E. A. Sophocles, Georg Olms, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York, 1983.
The Septuagint translation of the Old Testament into Greek:
The Septuagint with Apocrypha: Greek and English, Sir Lancelot C.L. Brenton (ed.), London, 1851, reprint ed., Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1982.
Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament. Band 1-9, Registerband und Literaturnachträge,
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Alexander P. Kazhdan (ed.), 3 Vols. Oxford University Press, 1991
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, E. A. Livingstone (ed.), Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 1997.
Patrologia Graeca, J. P. Migne (ed.), 1–161 Vols., Paris, 1857-1866.
Patrologia Latina, J. P. Migne, 1-221, Paris, 1844-1864.
Patrologia Orientalis, ed. R. Graffin and F. Nau, Paris, 1903- .
Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum, Berlin, ed. E. Schwartz, Berlin, 1914-1940; J. Straub, 1971.
Corpus Christianorum, Series Graeca, Turnhout-Leuven, 1976- .
Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, Turnhout-Leuven, 1953- .
Clavis Patrum Graecorum,
Clavis Patrum Latinorum (Sacris Erudiri 3), ed. E. Dekkers, Steenbrugge, 1961.
Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Paris-Louvain, 1903- .
Dictionnaire de Spiritualité Ascétique et Mystique. Doctrine et Histoire, ed. M. Viller, Paris, 1932- .
Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, Paris, 1923- .
Φιλοκαλία των ἱερων νηστικών. Venitiis, 1782; repr. Athenis, 1893, 1957 sqq.
Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte, Leipzig, 1897- .
New Testament Apocrypha, Hennecke, E., Schneemelcher, W., and Wilson, R. M. 2 vols. London, 1965.
Septuaginta. Rhalfs, A. Stuttgart, 1935.
Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio. Mansi, J. D., ed. Florence, 1759-98.
Oxford Classical Texts.
Patristische Texte und Studien, Berlin, 1964- .
Sources Chrétiennes, ed. H. de Lubac, J. Daniélou, Paris, 1941- .
The Ascetic Ethos of the Fathers
PRIMARY SOURCES
John Climacus, Saint. The Ladder of Divine Ascent. Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, MA, 2012.
Greek original text with Modern Greek translation, Parakletos Monastery, Oropos, Athens, 1978.
Sophrony, Archimandrite. Saint Silouan the Athonite. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1991 (repr. ed.).
Russian edition, Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Essex, 1990. Greek edition, idem, 1995.
Desert Fathers, The Lives of the. Tr. by Norman Russel. Introduction by Benedicta Ward, slg. Mowbray: London & Oxford/Cistercian Publications: Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1981. [US
Desert Fathers, The Sayings of the, The Alphabetical Collection. Tr. by Sister Benedicta Ward, slg. Preface by Metropolitan Anthony Bloom. Mowbray: London & Oxford/Cistercian Publications: Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1984 (revised edition). [
Desert Fathers, The Wisdom of the: Systematic Sayings from the Anonymous Series of the ‘Apophthegmata Patrum’. Tr. by Sister Benedicta Ward, slg. Foreword by Metropolitan Anthony Bloom. SLG Press: Oxford, 1991. [ISBN-10: 0-7283-0109-1].
Dorotheos of Gaza, Saint. Discourses and Sayings. Tr. with an Introduction by Eric P. Wheeler. Cistercian Studies Series: Number Thirty-Three. Cistercian Publications. Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1977. [
Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies. Edited and translated from the original Greek, with an introduction and notes by Christopher Veniamin. Mount Thabor Publishing, 2022 repr. ed.
Iakovos (Tsalikis) of Evia, Saint. The Garden of the Holy Spirit: Saint Iakovos of Evia (Contemporary Orthodox Elders Series, Volume 1). Orthodox Witness; 3 edition (May 18, 2018). [ISBN-13: 978-0977897070].
Ignatius (Brianchaninov), Bishop. On the Prayer of Jesus. With Introduction and ‘The Prayer Rope’ by an Athonite Monk. Saint John of Kronstadt Press: Liberty, Tennessee, 1995. [ISBN-10: 0-912927-61-5].
Ignatius (Brianchaninov), Bishop. The Arena: An Offering to Contemporary Monasticism. Tr. by Archimandrite Lazarus, with an Introduction by Archimandrite Kallistos (Ware). Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY, 1991. [
Isaac the Syrian, Saint. The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian. Tr. by Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, MA, 1984. [ISBN-10: 0-913026-55-7].
John Cassian, Saint. Conferences. Tr. by Colm Luibheid, with an Introduction by Owen Chadwick. Paulist Press, New York/Mahwah, NJ, 1991. [ISBN-13: 978-0809126941].
John of Kronstadt, Saint (Archpriest John Iliyich Sergieff). My Life in Christ or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God. Tr. by E. E. Goulaeff. Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY, 1994.
The Lives of the Monks of Palestine, by Cyril of Scythopolis. Tr. by R. M. Price, with Introduction and Notes by John Binns. Cistercian Publications: Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1991. [ISBN-13: 978-0879079147].
Moschos, John [also known as John Eviratus]. The Spiritual Meadow (Pratum Spirituale). Translated by John Wortley. Cistercian Studies Series 139. Cistercian Publications: Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1992.
Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain, Saint and Makarios of Corinth, Saint. The Philokalia. Tr. and ed. by G. E. H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard and Kallistos Ware. 5 Vols. Faber and Faber.
Pachomius, Saint. Pachomian Koinonia: The Lives, Rules, and Other Writings of Saint Pachomius and his Disciples. Volume One: The Life of Saint Pachomius and his Disciples. Tr. with an introduction by Armand Veilleux, Foreword by Adalbert de Vogüé. Cistercian Studies Series: Number Forty-Five. Cistercian Publications Inc., Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1980. [ISBN-13: 978-0879079451].
Païsios (Eznepidis) of Mount Athos, Saint. The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios. Dionysios Farasiotis. Edited by Philip Navarro. St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood; First edition (December 1, 2008). [ISBN-13: 978-1887904162].
Païsios (Eznepidis) of Mount Athos, Saint. Saint Paisios of Mount Athos. Hieromonk Isaac. The Holy Monastery of Saint Arsenios the Cappadocian; 2nd edition (2016). [ISBN-13: 978-9608976450].
Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) of Kafsokalivia, Saint. Wounded by Love: The Life and Wisdom of Saint Porphyrios. Denise Harvey (Publisher); Fourth Printing edition (2005). [ISBN-13: 978-9607120199].
Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) of Kafsokalivia, Saint. O Xristos einai to pan: Christ is everything (Greek Edition). The Holy Convent of the Transfiguration of the Savior; 1 edition (March 25, 2013). [ISBN-13: 978-9606890222]
Sophrony (Sakharov), Archimandrite. On Prayer. Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Essex, 1996.
Sophrony (Sakharov), Archimandrite. We Shall See Him As He Is. Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Essex, 1988.
Sophrony, Archimandrite. ‘Principles of Orthodox Asceticism.’ Tr. from the Russian by Rosemary Edmonds and reprinted from The Orthodox Ethos: Studies in Orthodoxy. Vol. 1, edited by A. J. Philippou. Oxford: Holywell Press, 1964.
Sophrony, Archimandrite. La Félicité de Connaître la Voie. Labor et Fides, Geneva, 1985. Contains additional material to Truth and Life (see below).
Sophrony, Archimandrite. His Life is Mine. SVS Press, 1977.
Sophrony, Archimandrite. Truth and Life. Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Essex, 2014.
Sophrony, Archimandrite. Letters to His Family. Translated by Sister Magdalen. Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Essex, 2015.
Sophrony, Archimandrite. Striving for Knowledge of God: Correspondence with David Balfour. Translated by Sister Magdalen. Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Essex, 2016.
Sophrony, Archimandrite. Seeking Perfection in the World of Art, see infra, Gabriela, Sister.
Symeon the New Theologian, Saint. The Discourses. Tr. by C. J. deCatanzaro, with an introduction by George Maloney and Preface by Basile Krivocheine. Classics of Western Spirituality. Paulist Press, Mahwah, NJ, 1980. [ISBN-10 0-8091-2230-8].
Symeon the New Theologian, Saint. The Practical and Theological Chapters and The Three Theological Discourses. Tr. with an introduction by Paul McGuckin. Cistercian Studies Series: Number Forty-One. Cistercian Publications. Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1982. [ISBN-10 0-87907-941-X].
Thaddeus (Tadej Štrbulović) of Vitovnica, Elder. Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teaching of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica. Tr. Ana Smiljanic. St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood; 1st edition (October 5, 2009). [ISBN-13: 978-1887904193].
Zervakos, Elder Philotheos. Paternal Counsels. Tr. by Father Nicholas Palis. Volume One. St. John of Kronstadt Press: Liberty, TN, 1991. Volume Two. Orthodox Kypseli Publications (2005).
SECONDARY SOURCES / STUDIES
Chitty, D. J. The Desert a City: An Introduction to the Study of Egyptian and Palestinian Monasticism under the Christian Empire. London, 1966; 2nd U.S. printing, SVS: Crestwood, NY, 1995. [ISBN-10: 0-913836-45-1].
Chryssavgis, John. Ascent to Heaven: The Theology of the Human Person According to Saint John of the Ladder. Brookline, Mass.: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1989. [ISBN-10: 0-917651-58-8].
Chryssavgis, John. Repentance and Confession in the Orthodox Church. Brookline, Mass.: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1990. [ISBN-10: 0-917651-56-1].
Clément, Olivier. The Roots of Christian Mysticism. London: New City, 1993. [ISBN-10: 0-904287-44-0].
Florovsky, George. The Byzantine Ascetic and Spiritual Fathers. Vol. X. Belmont, Ma.: Büchervertriebsanstalt, 1987. [ISBN-10: 3-905238-10-1].
Gabriela, Sister. Seeking Perfection in the World of Art: The Artistic Path of Father Sophrony. Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Essex, 2nd enlarged ed., 2014.
Gould, Graham. The Desert Fathers on Monastic Community (OUP, 1993).
Gross, J. La divinisation du chrétien d’après les Pères grecs. Paris, 1938. [‘The first systematic investigation into the subject’].
Hausherr, Iénée. Spiritual Direction in the Early Christian East. Cistercian Studies Series: Number One-Hundred Sixteen. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 1990. Translated from the French [La direction sprituelle en Orient autrefois, in Orientalia Christiana Analecta 144 (Rome, 1955)] by Anthony R. Gythiel, and with a Foreword by Bishop Kallistos [Ware] of Diokleia: ‘The Spiritual Father in Saint John Climacus and Saint Symeon the New Theologian,’ pp. vii-xxxiii. [ISBN-10: 0-87907-416-7].
Hausherr, Iénée. The Name of Jesus. Cistercian Studies Series: Number Forty-Four. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 1978; 2nd ed., 1983. Translated from the French [Noms du Christ et voies d’oraisons,] by Charles Cummings, OCSO. [ISBN-13: 978-0879079444].
Keselopoulos, Anestis. Pavqh kai; ∆Arete;" sth; Didaskaliva tou' ÔAgivou Grhgorivou tou' Palama' [Passions and Virtues in the Teaching of Saint Gregory Palamas]. Athens: Domos Publications, 1982. Eng. trans. STS Press, 2004.
Krivocheine, Archbishop Basil. In the Light of Christ: St. Symeon the New Theologian (949 - 1022). Life-Spirituality-Doctrine. SVS Press, 1986. [ISBN-10: 0-913836-91-5].
Larchet, Jean-Claude. Thérapeutique des Maladies Spirituelles. 2 Vols. Collection L’Arbre de Jessé. Editions de l’ancre, Paris 1991.
Meyendorff, John. St. Gregory Palamas and Orthodox Spirituality. SVS, 1974. [ISBN-10: 0-913836-11-7]
Veniamin, Christopher. Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies. Edited and translated from the original Greek, with introduction and notes. Dalton, PA: Mount Thabor Publishing, 2016 repr. ed.
Veniamin, Christopher. The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation: “Theosis” in Scripture and Tradition (Mount Thabor Publishing, 2014, repr. ed.).
Völker, W. Praxis und Theoria bei Symeon dem Neuen Theologen: Ein Beitrag zur byzantinischen Mystik. Wiesbaden, 1974.
Völker, W. Scala Paradisi: Eine Studie zu Johannes Climacus und zugleich eine Vorstudie zu Symeon dem Neuen Theologen. With appendix: Christi Verklärung auf dem Tabor in der Deutung des Maximus Confessor und Gregorius Palamas, pp. 317-327. Wiesbaden, 1968.
Ware, K. T. ‘Death and Resurrection: The Orthodox Vision,’ in Alive in Christ, Vol. XII, no. 1 (South Canaan, PA: Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania Press, Orthodox Church in America, Spring 1996), pp. 8-14; and Vol. XII, no. 3 (Winter 1996), pp. 23-26. First part also published as a contribution to The Tikhonaire (South Canaan, PA: St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, 1996), pp. 66-73. Edited and introduced by Christopher Veniamin.
Ware, K. T. ‘Introduction’ to John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent. The Classics of Western Spirituality. New York-Ramsey-Toronto: Paulist Press, 1982, pp. 1-70.
Ware, K. T. ‘The Spiritual Father in St John Climacus and St Symeon the New Theologian.’ Studia Patristica 18,2 (1989), 299-316. Reissued as a Foreword in the English translation of Irénée Hausherr’s Spiritual Direction in the Early Christian East. Cistercian Studies Series 116. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 1990, pp. vii-xxxiii.
Ware, K. T. ‘The Transfiguration of the Body.’ Sobornost 4, 8 (1963), 420-434. Reprinted (with revisions) in Sacrament and Image, ed. A. M. Allchin, published by the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius, London, 1967, pp. 17-32.
Zacharias, Archimandrite. Christ, Our Way and Our Life: A Presentation of the Theology of Archimandrite Sophrony. (Saint Tikhon’s Seminary Press, 2003).
Zacharias, Archimandrite. The Enlargement of the Heart: “Be ye also enlarged” (2 Corinthians 6:13) in the Theology of Saint Silouan the Athonite and Elder Sophrony of Essex. Edited by Christopher Veniamin (and joint translator). Dalton, PA: Mount Thabor Publishing, 2012 repr. ed.
Zacharias, Archimandrite. ‘The Hidden Man of the Heart’ (1 Peter 3:4): The Cultivation of the Heart in Orthodox Christian Anthropology. Edited by Christopher Veniamin. Dalton, PA: Mount Thabor Publishing, 2014 repr. ed.
Zacharias, Archimandrite. ‘Remember Thy First Love’ (Revelation 2:4–5): The Three Stages of the Spiritual Life in the Theology of Elder Sophrony. Dalton, PA: Mount Thabor Publishing, 2016 repr. ed.
Zacharias, Archimandrite. Man the Target of God: ‘What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? (Job 7:17–18). Dalton, PA: Mount Thabor Publishing, 2016.
Zacharias, Archimandrite. The Engraving of Christ in Man’s Heart. Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Essex, 2017.
Zacharias, Archimandrite. The Eternal Today: Journeying with the Church in the Light of the Feasts. Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Essex, 2017.The Fathers of the Church, Christology and the Holy Trinity.
The Patristic Tradition and the Doctrines of Christology and the Holy Trinity
GENERAL
St. John Damascene, Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. Trans. S.D.F. Salmond, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Christian Fathers, Series II, vol. ix (New York & Oxford, 1899).
Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies. Edited and translated from the original Greek, with Introduction and Notes by Christopher Veniamin. Dalton, PA: Mount Thabor Publishing, repr. ed., 2016.
Ecclesial Being: Contributions to Theological Dialogue. Constantine B. Scouteris. Edited by Christopher Veniamin. Waymart, PA: Mount Thabor Publishing, repr. ed., 2006.
Johannes Quasten, Patrology. Vol. III: The Golden Age of Greek Patristic Literature. Utrecht, Antwerp: Spectrum Publishers, 1960.
George Florovsky, The Collected Works. Edited by Richard S. Haugh. Vol. VIII: The Byzantine Fathers of the Fifth Century; and Vol. IX: The Byzantine Fathers of the Sixth to Eighth Century. Belmont, MA: Büchervertriebsanstalt, 1987.
John Meyendorff, Byzantine Theology: Historical Trends and Doctrinal Themes. Fordham University Press, 1974.
John Meyendorff, Christ in Eastern Christian Thought. SVS, 1975.
Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine. Vol. 2: The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600 - 1700). Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1977.
John S. Romanides, “Critical Examination of the Applications of Theology.” Procès-Verbaux du Deuxième Congrès de Théologie Orthodoxe à Athènes (19-29 Août 1976). Athens, 1978.
Hierotheos (Vlachos), The Person in the Orthodox Tradition. Translated by Esther Williams. Birth of the Theotokos Monastery: Levadia, 1999.
Christopher Veniamin, The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation: “Theosis” in Scripture and Tradition (Mount Thabor Publishing, repr. ed., 2016).
Christopher Veniamin, “The Transfiguration of Christ: From Irenaeus of Lyons to Gregory Palamas”. (Mount Thabor Publishing, 2022).
E.R. Hardy and C.C. Richardson, Christology of the Later Fathers. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1954.
Maurice Wiles and Mark Santer, Documents in Early Christian Thought. CUP, 1993.
TEXTS AND STUDIES ARRANGED BY ECCLESIASTICAL WRITER
Cyril of Alexandria
Greek Text
J.-P. Migne, in 10 volumes, Patrologia Graeca 68–77 (Paris 1859). Reprinted, Turnhout: Brepols, 1991.
First modern critical edition: Philip Pusey (son of the Great Tractarian, Edward Bouverie Pusey), in seven volumes, beginning in 1868 and ending in 1877, all of which were entitled, Sancti Patris nostri Cyrilli archiepiscopi Alexandrini… (and all of which were reprinted in Brussels, in 1965).
Much of Pusey’s vols. 6 and 7, with certain other materials relating to the Council of Ephesus, were re-edited by Eduard Schwartz, in the first volume of his, Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum, pars prima–septima: Concilium Universale Ephesinum (Berlin and Leipzig: Walter de Gryter, 1927–1929.
Critical Greek editions of Cyril’s works are also to be found in Sources Chrétiennes (Paris, Les Editions du Cerf), which follow chronologically from the above, and which include French translations. These include the following:-
G.M. de Durand, Deux dialogues christologiques (On the Incarnation and On the Unity of Christ), SC 97 (Paris, 1964). Important introduction.
G.M. de Durand, Dialogues sur la Trinité, 3 Vols., SC 231, 237, 246 (Paris, Les Editions du Cerf, 1976, 1977, 1978).
P. Burguière, and P. Evieux, Contre Julien, Vol. 1, SC 322 (Paris, 1985).
P. Évieux, et al., Lettres festales (I–VI, VII–XI, XII–VII), 3 Vols., SC 372, 392, 434 (Paris, Les Editions du Cerf, 1991, 1993, 1998).
Syriac Text
Critical Syriac editions of Cyril’s works include the following significant works:-
J.B. Chabot, Sancti Cyrilli Alexandrini Commentarii in Lucam, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Scriptores Syri 70 (Paris, 1912); with a Latin translation by R. Tonneau, CSCO 140 (Louvain, 1953).
R.Y. Ebied and L.R. Wickham, “An Unknown Letter of Cyril of Alexandria in Syriac”, Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 22 (1971), 420–43.
R.Y. Ebied and L.R. Wickham, A Collection of Unpublished Syriac Letters of Cyril of Alexandria, CSCO 359–360 (Louvain, 1975).
Translations
St. Cyril of Alexandria, Against Those Who Are Unwilling to Confess that the Holy Virgin is Theotokos, Patristic and Ecclesiastical Texts and Translations, Vol. 1, Ed. & tr. George D. Dragas (Rolinsford NH: Orthodox Research Institute, 2004).
E.R. Hardy and C.C. Richardson, Christology of the Later Fathers. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1954.
Studies
Aloys Grillmeier, Christ in Christian Tradition. Vol. 1: From the Apostolic Age to Chalcedon (451). Trans. by John Bowden. Vol. 2: From the Council of Chalcedon (451) to Gregory the Great (590 - 604). Part One: Reception and Contradiction: The Development of the discussion about Chalcedon from 451 to the beginning of the reign of Justinian. Trans. by Pauline Allen and John Cawte. London & Oxford: Mowbray, 1975 and 1987.
John S. Romanides, “St. Cyril's ‘One Physis or Hypostasis of God the Logos Incarnate’ and Chalcedon,” Vol. 10, no. 2 Greek Orthodox Theological Review (1964-65), 82–102; and for Discussion on this paper between theologians of Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches, see also: 102–107.
Appendix to Cyril of Alexandria: Theodore of Mopsouestia
Greek Text
J.-P. Migne, Patrologia Graeca 66.
Critical editions of his Commentaries on Minor Epp. of St Paul (fragmentary): H.B. Swete, ed., Theodori Episcopi Mopsouesteni in Epistolas B. Pauli Commentarii, 2 Vols. (Cambridge, 1880–82). Dogmatic fragments: Vol. 2, pp. 291-339.
Fragments on St Paul collected in: K. Staab, Pauluskommentare aus der griechischen Kirche aus Katenenhandschriften gesammelt (Neutestamentliche Abhandlungen, 15; 1933), pp. 113–212.
Fragments on Commentaries on Psalms I–80 [81], ed. R. Devreesse, Studi e Testi 93 (Rome, 1939); of Commentary on John, ed. Idem, Essai sur Théodore de Mopsoueste, Studi e Testi 141 (Rome, 1948 [a major work]), appendix, pp. 287–419.
And critical Greek ed. of commentaries on Minor Prophets, by H.N. Sprenger (Göttinger Orientsforschungen, 5 Reihe, Bd. 1; Wiesbaden, 1977).
Syriac Text
For important critical Syriac eds., for Comm. on John, see J. M. Vosté (CSCO, 1940); Comm. on Pss. 118 [119] and 138 [139]–48, by L. van Rompay (CSCO, 1982); and of frag. of comm. on Eccles. by W. Strothmann (Göttinger Orientsforschungen, 1 Reihe, Bd. 28; Wiesbaden, 1988); Cathecheses (Syr. text and Eng. tr.) ed. A. Mingana [Woodbrooke Studies, 5 (on Nicene Creed), 1932; and 6 (on the Lord’s Prayer and the Sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist), 1933]; also photographically repr. from MS Mingana Syr. 561 (Selly Oak Colleges’ Library, Birmingham) with Fr. trans. and introd. by R. Tonneau, and R. Devreesse (Studi e Testi 145, Rome, 1949).
Studies
R.A. Greer, Theodore of Mopsouestia (London, 1961) - good gen. intro.
R.A. Norris, Manhood and Christ: A Study in the Christology of Theodore of Mopsouestia (Oxford, 1963) - still considered best book written on the subject.
John S. Romanides, “Highlights in the Debate over Theodore of Mopsouestia’s Christology and Some Suggestions for a Fresh Approach,” Vol. 5, no. 2 Greek Orthodox Theological Review (1959/60), 140-85 – brilliant.
F.A. Sullivan, The Christology of Theodore of Mopsouestia (Rome, 1956) - a systematic study.
Appendix to Cyril of Alexandria: Nestorius
Greek Text
F. Loofs, Nestoriana (Halle, 1905).
For critical editon of the acta of the Council of Ephesus, see E. Schwartz in Acta Concilliorum Oecumenicorum.
Syriac Text and Translations
Syriac text of the Liber Heraclides, first ed. P. Bedjan (Paris, 1910); French translation by F. Nau (ibid., 1910, including further fragments of Greek., not printed by Loofs, pp. 335–358).
For Nestorius’ sermons: English translation, with introduction and studies, by G.R. Driver and L. Hodgson (Oxford, 1925).
Dionysius the Areopagite
Greek Text
J.-P. Migne, Patrologia Graeca 3.
Critical edition of The Celestial Hierarchy in Sources Chrétiennes, no. 58 bis, G. Heil, R. Roques, M. de Gandillac ([2013]; 2nd ed., 1970); of On the Divine Names (I-IV), SC 578 (Paris, 2016), and of On the Divine Names(V-XIII), and Mystical Theology, SC 579 (Paris, 2016), both by Y. De Andia.
Full Critical Greek Edition: Beate Regina Suchla, Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita. Vol. 1: De Divinis Nominibus; G. Heil, A.M. Ritter, Vol. 2: De Coelesti Hierarchia, De Ecclesiastica Hierarchia, De Mystica Theologia, Epistulae, Patristische Texte und Studien 33 and 36 (Walter de Gruyter: Berlin, 2013 and 2014).
Translations
Colm Luibheid, Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works. The Classics of Western Spirituality, New York/London, 1987.
John D. Jones, Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names and Mystical Theology. Translated from the Greek with an Introductory Study (Marquette University Press: Milwaukee, WI, 1980).
Thomas L. Campbell, The Ecclesiastical Hierarchies. (Lanham, MD, 1981).
C.E. Rolt, On the Divine Names and the Mystical Theology (London, 1920; new ed., SPCK, 1940).
Editors of the Shrine of Wisdom, The Divine Names (Fintry, Surrey, 1957).
Editors of the Shrine of Wisdom, The Mystical Theology and the Celestial Hierarchies (Fintry, Surrey, 1965).
Studies
Alexander Golitzin, Et Introibo in Altare Dei: The Mystagogy of Dionysius Areopagita, with Special Reference to its Predecessors in the Eastern Christian Tradition, Analecta Vlatadon vol. 59 (Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies: Thessalonica, 1994).
Ronald F. Hathaway, Hierarchy and the Definition of Order in the Letters of Pseudo-Denys (The Hague, 1969).
Vladimir Lossky, “La notion des “analogies” chez le ps. Denys l’Aréopagite”, Archives d’Histoire doctrinale et littérature du Moyen Age 5 (1930), pp. 279-309.
Vladimir Lossky, “La théologie négative dans la doctrine de Denys l’Aréopagite”, Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques 28 (1939), pp. 204–22.
Vladimir Lossky, In the Image and Likeness of God (New York, 1974).
Vladimir Lossky, The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (London, 1957). [Esp. chapter II).
Andrew Louth, Denys the Areopagite (London, 1989).
Andrew Louth, The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition From Plato to Denys (Oxford, 1981). [Esp. chapter VIII].
John Meyendorff, Christ in Eastern Christian Thought (Crestwood, 1975). [Chapter V].
René Roques, et al, in Dictionnaire de Spiritualité iii (1957), cols. 245-429; and in Dictionnaire d’Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques xiv (1960), cols. 265-310.
René Roques, L’univers dionysien (Paris, 1954).
Paul Rorum, and John C. Lemoreaux, John of Scythopolis and the Dionysian Corpus: Annotating the Areopagite Oxford Early Christian Studies. (Oxford–New York: Clarendon Press, 1998).
Paul Rorum, Biblical and Liturgical Symbols within the Pseudo-Dionysian Synthesis (Toronto, 1984).
Paul Rorum, Pseudo-Dionysius: A Commentary on the Texts and an Introduction to their Influence. Oxford University Press, 1993.
D. Rutledge, Cosmic Theology: The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy of Pseudo-Denys (London, 1964).
I. P. Sheldon-Williams, “The Pseudo-Dionysius”, in A. H. Armstrong, The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy (Cambridge, 1967), pp. 457-72.
J. Vanneste, Le mystère de Dieu (Bruges, 1959).
Walther Völker, Kontemplation und Ekstase bei ps.-Dionysius Areopagita (Wiesbaden, 1958).
Maximus the Confessor
Greek Text
J.-P. Migne, Patrologia Graeca 90–91.
See texts in Filokaliva tw'n iJerw'n nhptikw'n [The Philokalia of the Holy Neptic Fathers], Vol. 2 (Venice, 1782; repr. ed., Astir: Athens, 1975).
Critical Greek editions in Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca, Brepols (with translations in Latin or French):-
Questiones ad Thalassium, C. Laga and C. Steel (CCSG 7 and 22; 1980-90).
Questiones et Dubia, J.H. Declerck (CCSG 10; 1982).
Opuscula exegetica duo, P. Van Deun (CCSG 23; 1991).
Liber asceticus, P. Van Deun (CCSG 40; 2000).
Ambigua ad Thomam una cum Epistula secunda ad eundem, B. Janssens (CCSG 48; 2002).
Mystagogia, C. Boudignon (CCSG 69; 2011). [with Latin and French.]
Capita de duabus Christi naturis necnon Capita gnostica, K. Levrie (CCSG 89; 2017). [with French.]
On the Life of Maximus, see Scripta saeculi VII vitam Maximi Confessoris illustrantia, P. Allen, B. Neil (eds.), CCSG 39; 1999.
Four Centuries on Love, critical ed. by A. Ceresa-Gastaldo (Verba Seniorum 3: Rome, 1963).
Critical Greek text with French translation, in Sources Chrétiennes, Paris:-
Centuries sur la Charité, J. Pegon, SC 9 ([2006]; 1st ed., Paris, 1945).
Questions à Thalassios, J.-C. Larchet, F. Vinel, Vol. I (1–40), SC 529 (2010), Vol. II (41–55), SC 554 (2012), Vol. III (56–65), SC 569 (2016).
Latin Text
Ambigua ad Iohannem iuxta Iohannis Scoti Eriugenae latinam interpretationem, E. Jeauneau (CCSG 18; 1988).
Translation
G.E.H. Palmer, P. Sherrard, K. Ware, The Philokalia, Vol. 2 (London, 1981): Centuries on Love; Centuries on Theology; On the Lord’s Prayer.
Polycarp Sherwood, in Ancient Christian Writers 21 (Westminster, Maryland, 1955): The Ascetic Life; Centuries on Love (with important introduction).
Andrew Louth, A. Maximus the Confessor (London and New York: Routledge, 1996).
G.C. Berthold, Maximus Confessor: Selected Writings (The Classics of Western Spirituality: New York, 1985): Centuries on Love; On the Lord’s Prayer; Centuries on Theology; Mystagogy; also the Trial of Maximus (with good bibliography).
Ambigua to Thomas and Second Letter to Thomas, trans. J. Lollar (Corpus Christianorum in Translation 2; 2009). A collection of chapters devoted to the exposition of passages from Gregory Nazianzen and Denys the Areopagite.
Studies
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Liturgie cosmique (Paris, 1947).
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Kosmische Liturgie (Einsiedeln, 1961: revised ed. of the above).
Lars Thunberg, Man and the Cosmos (SVS Press: Crestwood, 1985).
Lars Thunberg, Microcosm and Mediator (Lund, 1965).
Jean-Claude Larchet. “Ancestral guilt according to St Maximus the Confessor: a bridge between Eastern and Western conceptions,” Sobornost 20, 1 (1998), 26-48.
John Meyendorff, Christ in Eastern Christian Thought (SVS Press, Crestwood 1975). [Chapter VII].
Alain Riou, Le Monde et l’Église selon Maxime le Confesseur, Théologie Historique 22 (Paris, 1973).
René Bornert, Les commentaires byzantines de la Divine Liturgie (Paris, 1966). [Chapter II].
Jean Miguel Garrigues, Maxime le Confesseur, Théologie Historique (Paris, 1976).
Fancois-Marie Léthel, Théologie de l’Agonie du Christ, Théologie Historique 52 (Paris, 1979).
Nikolaos Loudovikos, ÔH Eujcaristiakh; ∆Ontologiva: Ta; Eucaristiaka; Qemevlia tou' Ei\nai, wJ" ejn Koinwniva/ Givgnesqai, sth;n ∆Escatologikh; ∆Ontologiva tou' ÔAgivou Maxivmou tou' ÔOmologithv (∆Ekdovsei" Dovmo", 1992); English trans.: A Eucharistic Ontology: Maximus the Confessor's Eschatological Ontology of Being as Dialogical Reciprocity (Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2010).
Nivkou ∆A. Matsouvka, Kovsmo", a[nqrwpo", koinwniva kata; to;n Mavximo ÔOmologhthv (Athens, 1980).
Felix Heinzer, Gottes Sohn als Mensch: Die Struktur des Menschens Christi bei Maximus Confessor, Paradosis 26 (Freiburg, 1980).
Pierre Pirret, Le Christ et la Trinité selon Maxime le Confesseur, Théologie Historique 69 (Paris, 1983).
Joost van Rossum, “The lovgoi of creation and the divine energies in Maximus the Confessor and Gregory Palamas,” Studia Patristica 27 (1993), 213-217.
Polycarp Sherwood, An Annotated Date-List of the Works of Maximus the Confessor, in Studia Anselmiana, no. 30 (Rome, 1952).
Polycarp Sherwood, The Earlier Ambigua of St Maximus the Confessor and His Refutation of Origenism, in Studia Anselmiana, no. 36 (Rome, 1955).
Christopher Veniamin, “The Transfiguration of Christ and the Deification of Man in Saint Maximus the Confessor,”
Jean-Claude Larchet, La divinisation de l’ homme selon saint Maxime le Confesseur, in the series Cogitatio fidei 194 (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1996).
John Damascene
Texts
Translations
St. John Damascene, Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. trans. S. D. F. Salmond, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Christian Fathers, Series II, vol. ix (New York & Oxford, 1899).
Languages: Ancient and Biblical
Greek Courses
Hardy, H. and Quinn, G. Greek: An Intensive Course. 2nd Revised Edition. Fordham University Press, 1992.
Greek Reference
Goodwin, William W., A Greek Grammar. St. Martin's Press, 1978.
Marinone, N. All the Greek Verbs (Tutti i Verbi Greci). Duckworth, 1991.
Mounce, William D., Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar: Fourth Edition. Zondervan, 2019.
Languages: Modern
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