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  • 2.4 - Christian Platonism in Byzantium

  • from II - History
  • Edited by Alexander J. B. Hampton, University of Toronto, John Peter Kenney, Saint Michael's College, Vermont
  • Book:
    Christian Platonism
    Published online:
    20 January 2021
    Print publication:
    17 December 2020, pp 207-226

  • Summary

    Platonism in Byzantine Christianity is a complex topic since diverse traditions of Platonism had an impact on Byzantine theologians. This chapter considers three central thinkers: Dionysius the Areopagite, St Maximus the Confessor, and St Gregory Palamas. It discusses the ‘diffused Platonism’ of these Christian thinkers whose thought included Platonic doctrines such as the radical transcendence of God, the doctrine of providence, the doctrine of Forms as creative logoi in the mind of the Creator, the Plotinian doctrine of double activity, and the late antique doctrine of procession and conversion. Notions like these were established as parts of a general outlook of Byzantine Christian thought. The chapter concludes with a discussion of John Philoponus and John of Damascus.