Pseudo Dionysius

Would be nice to have some books about Pseudo Dionysius Areopagite. I know these three books but Im sure there are more. And yes I know about the one book that is in the pre pub bundle.

Denys the Areopagite by Andrew Louth,

The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: From Plato to Denys by Andrew Louth,

Theophany by Eric D. Perl

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T MacLeod

It would be nice, actually, to have a good translation of his works in Logos format.

Colm Luibheid's version, published in the Classics of Western Spirituality series by Paulist Press, would be a particularly good one, but I don't think I've ever seen a Paulist Press book on Logos, or in any electronic format for that matter.

MJ. Smith

Actually, if we're going down this particular line we need

a) Bernard McGinn's multi-volume The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism

b) the Philokalia

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/75598#Comment_75598

Well, while we're talking about McGinn and multi-volume works, there's the more general Christian Spirituality volumes of the World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest series, published by Crossroad:

Christian Spirituality I: Origins to the Twelfth Century, edited by Barnard McGinn, John Meyendorff, and Jean Leclercq
Christian Spirituality II: High Middle Ages and Reformation, edited by Jill Raitt
Christian Spirituality III: Post-Reformation and Modern, edited by Louis Dupré and Don E. Saliers

I haven't even begun to go through my Christian spirituality shelf looking for suggestions that would make good additions to Logos, but for now here are a couple:

Exploring Christian Spirituality: An Ecumenical Reader, edited by Kenneth J. Collins (Baker) - Table of Contents available here
Invitation to Christian Spirituality: An Ecumenical Reader, edited by John R. Tyson (Oxford) - Table of Contents

The former is a collection of essays by contemporary authors about different aspects of Christian spirituality throughout history, and the latter is an anthology of primary literature from Ignatius through Desmond Tutu, including Pseudo-Dionysius. Generally I prefer to have complete works rather than anthologies of excerpts, but this is a good introduction to a lot of works that people might not otherwise buy in entirety for their Logos library. Better to dabble than remain completely unfamiliar with some of these writers.

Niko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/75606#Comment_75606

I have heard someone say that the history of christian mysticism is the history of christian neoplatonism, so that is why I thought that the book by Louth would be great to have because it starts for Plato. I don't know if its always true but atleast neoplatonism has had an effect on Augustine and Dionysius.

Niko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/74954#Comment_74954

Yeah Dionysius' corpus would be nice to have. Apart from Patrology I don't think Logos has the writings of Pseudo Dionysius Areopagite and for starters I would much prefer the english translation.

T MacLeod

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/75598#Comment_75598

Those would be excellent, I agree. (Not holding my breath, though.)

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/75729#Comment_75729

With Underhill moving out of community plug McGinn again - he really is essential.