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Panagiotis G. Pavlos

University of Oslo
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  • St Theodore the Studite's Defence of the Icons: Theology and Philosophy in Ninth-Century Byzantium
    Torstein Tollefsen
    Oxford University Press. 2018.
    Tollefsen investigates the image-doctrine of St Theodore the Studite with particular attention to his three refutations of the iconoclasts, the Antirrhetici tres adversus iconomachos.
  • The Christocentric Cosmology of St Maximus the Confessor
    Torstein Tollefsen
    Oxford University Press. 2008.
    Maximus the Confessor was an important Byzantine thinker, the 'father of Byzantine theology'. This study describes his metaphysical world-view. The discussion covers Maximus' doctrine of creation, the Logos and the logoi, the cosmic order, the activities or energies of God, and how created beings may participate in God.
  • Plotinus
    Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson
    Routledge. 2005.
    Plotinus was the founder of Neoplatonism, whose thought has had a profound influence on medieval philosophy, and on Western philosophy more broadly. In this engaging book, Eyjólfur K. Emilsson introduces and explains the full spectrum of Plotinus’ philosophy for those coming to his work for the first time. Beginning with a chapter-length overview of Plotinus’ life and works which also assesses the Platonic, Aristotelian and Stoic traditions that influenced him, Emilsson goes on to address key to…Read more
  • Activity and Participation in Late Antique and Early Christian Thought
    Torstein Tollefsen
    Oxford University Press. 2012.
    An investigation into two basic concepts of ancient pagan and early Christian thought, activity and participation, through detailed discussion of the writings of Gregory of Nyssa, Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, and Gregory Palamas.