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Marsilio Ficino and the Dionysian Corpus

2022
AbstractThis essay examines the aims and methods of the Renaissance Platonist Marsilio Ficino in his translations of the Mystical Theology and the Divine Names. Acknowledging that Ficino would have regarded himself at all times as a Christian, it argues that he nonetheless tends to assimilate the thought of Dionysius to that of Proclus, whose ...
Mark Edwards, Michael Allen
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Content of the Dionysian Corpus

2022
Abstract This essay examines the content of the Dionysian Corpus in order to demonstrate the unity of its two fundamental characters: Christian and Neoplatonic. The essay takes as its cornerstone the Neoplatonic, metaphysical cycle of causality, in its Proclean form, using it to show how Dionysius the Areopagite uses it to interpret the ...
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The Dionysian Corpus

2022
AbstractThe so-called Corpus Dionysiacum Areopagiticum is a collection of four philosophical-theological treatises and ten Epistulae. These texts were originally written in Greek and come from an author whom the manuscripts of the corpus call Dionysius Areopagita, bishop of Athens.
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John of Scythopolis and the Dionysian Corpus

2022
Abstract The theologian, philosopher, and bishop John of Scythopolis wrote a prologue and scholia to the four treatises and ten letters of Dionysius Areopagita. With this, he was the first scholiast of the Dionysian writings, and his efforts put him at the beginning of a long succession of high-profile commentators and interpreters.
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Notes on the Earliest Greco-Syriac Reception of the Dionysian Corpus

2022
AbstractThe first public appearance of the Dionysian Corpus is linked to the intellectual circle of Severus of Antioch, who prized the corpus since they saw in its assertion of the composition with humanity of the ‘simple Jesus’ and in his ‘god-manly activity’ a vindication of their own Christology. This chapter passes under review the earliest textual
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Ranks Are Not Bypassed, Rituals Are Not Negated: The Dionysian Corpus on Return

Modern Theology, 2013
AbstractModern readings of the Dionysian corpus often subordinate its hierarchical treatises to its theological treatises. Two unfortunate consequences follow: one, the thetic positions and aphairetic removals of the Divine Names and Mystical Theology bypass or transcend the hierarchical ranks and hierurgical rituals of the Celestial Hierarchy and ...
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THE PLACE OF THE DIONYSIAN CORPUS IN THE RECENT ORTHODOX TRADITION

SWS International Scientific Conference on Arts and Humanities - ISCAH, 2019
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