The Chapters of Kallistos Angelikoudes: The Relationship of the Separate Series and their Main Theological Themes, in: Byzantine Theology and its Theological Background, edited by Antonio Rigo, Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization, 4 (Turnhout, 2011), p. 141–159 (original) (raw)

The article deals with a little studied and partially published corpus of the Chapters composed by Kallistos Angelikoudes, one of the most interesting and enigmatic authors of late Byzantium. The article attempts, for the first time, to trace the relationship between the three surviving collections of the Chapters and makes preliminary observations about the provenance of these three collections. The article also discusses the distinct features of the language of Kallistos, another topic which, so far, has been insufficiently studied. Finally, the article reviews the main themes of Chapters’ theology, attempting to locate them within the intellectual context of the middle and late fourteenth century, also known as the period of the Palamite controversy. The study pays special attention to Kallistos Angelikoudes’ teaching about God’s energies, as it appears in the Chapters, and its place among Palamite teaching of the time.