Byzantine and Medieval Syrian Theological Aesthetics II

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Sean C. Stidd; Leonidas Pittos; David Bradshaw

Organizer Affiliation

Wayne State Univ.; Wayne State Univ.; Univ. of Kentucky

Presider Name

Sean C. Stidd

Paper Title 1

Invisible Aesthetics: Spiritual Perception in Diadochos of Photiki

Presenter 1 Name

Michael Manos

Presenter 1 Affiliation

St. Nicholas Church

Paper Title 2

A Translation and Examination of Gregory Bar Hebraeus's On Perfection

Presenter 2 Name

Patrick Conlin

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Marquette Univ.

Paper Title 3

Kallopoios Aitia: Gregory Palamas and Divine Beauty in the Corpus Areopagiticum

Presenter 3 Name

Leonidas Pittos

Start Date

11-5-2019 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1135

Description

Often remarked upon, the distinctive emphasis on beauty as an organizing principle in Orthodox Christianity is a subject deserving of further academic inquiry. Towards that end, we have organized two sessions around the broad theme of beauty as it is encountered and addressed in the art, architecture, poetry, worship, theology, and philosophy of the Byzantine and Medieval Near Eastern worlds. Sean Stidd