Psellos the Hesychast. A Neoplatonic reading of the Transfiguration on Mt. Tabor (Theologica I.11 Gautier)
Psellos the Hesychast. A Neoplatonic reading of the Transfiguration on Mt. Tabor (Theologica I.11 Gautier)

Summary/Abstract: Essay 11 of the Theologica edited by Gautier, dedicated to interpreting a canon of John of Damascus, illustrates Psellos' opinion on what the disciples saw during the Transfiguration of Jesus. Unlike the contemporary poems of Christophoros Mityleanios and John Mauropous, his focus is on the question of perception. Indeed he employs ideas taken explicitly from Proclus' Elements of Theology, and specifically proposition 71, in order to define the concept of cðéôçäåéüôçò. Psellos focuses on the specific passages from the canon of John of Damascus, an important element since Gregory Palamas in the fourteenth century understood that canon to be a key for the interpretation of the perception of the energies of God.

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