Aristotle East and West

Winner of the Journal of the History of Ideas''s Morris D. Forkosch prize This book traces the development thought about God and the relationship between God''s being and activity from Aristotle through the pagan Neoplatonists to thinkers such as Augustine Boethius and Aquinas (in the West) and Dionysius the Areopagite Maximus the Confessor and Gregory Palamas (in the East). The resulst is a comparative history of philosophical thought in the two halves of Christendom providing a philosophical backdrop to the schism between the Eastern and Western churches.