How Negative Is the Theology of Dionysius the Areopagite?
Verbum Vitae, 2023 This paper considers three recent studies on the negative theology of the Neoplatonists and Dionysius the Areopagite. The first is that of Lloyd Gerson, who argues that the One in Plotinus does not lack transcend existence but only definite existence ...
Mark Edwards
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Pseudo-Dionysius’ Concept of Hierarchy and the Imperial Cult in the Early Roman Empire
Krakowskie Studia Z Historii Państwa I Prawa, 2022 This article focuses on the relationship between the imperial cult in pagan Rome and the heavenly hierarchy taught by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The latter’s thought played a significant role in the construction of the medieval image of the world ...
Marcin Tomasiewicz
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Being Alive, Living a Life. The Unity of the Concept of Life in Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Verbum Vitae, 2021 The writings of Corpus Dionysiacum present a concept of life which is different from the one that we profess nowadays. Its view is backed up mainly by the Platonic tradition, which since the times of Plato has tended to see life as an intellectual ...
Tomasz Paweł Stępień
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Theurgy in Dionysius the Areopagite 1 [PDF]
, 2019 The present chapter aims at offering insights into Dionysius the Areopagite’s notion of theurgy, both with respect to the metaphysical principles that connect with “θεουργία” and the particular sacramental reality that emerges from it. Pavlos argues that
Pavlos, Panagiotis G.
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Negation as Infinite Affirmation
Diakrisis, 2019 The purpose of this paper is to identify the meaning of negation in Dionysius the Areopagite’s apophatism: how and towards which reality does it orient contemplation and what does it actually say about God who reveals Himself?
Grigore Dinu Moș
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The Perception of God through Light in Plato and Dionysius the Areopagite
PhilosophiesThis article explores the soul’s capacity to see God. This is the process by which a human subject can apprehend and define the nature of God on a philosophical and theological level.
Konstantinos Laparidis
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Jean-Luc Marion’s Philosophy of Religion: Between Methodological Rigorousness and Hermeneutics [PDF]
Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy, 2011 Review of: Tamsin Jones, A Genealogy of Marion’s Philosophy of Religion: Apparent Darkness, Bloomington, Indiana University Press ...
George Vamesul
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The apophatic theology in the philosophical studies of Jacques Derrida: the experience of pure prayer and the analogic language of the hymn [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2021 This article examines the image of negative theology in the works of Jacques Derrida using the example of the theology of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Liubov Petrova
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Neoplatonism in Byzantine and Early Serbian philosophy: The circle and radii diagram [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2023 The paper examines some of the main metaphysical concepts of the thought of Dionysius the Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor, such as unity, differentiation, movement, limit, and logoi, in the context of the metaphor of circles and radii.
Cvetković Vladimir
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Aspect visuel de la deification selon Denys L’areopagite [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2010 One of the thinkers who intellectually consolidated deification and gave it a solid doctrinal basis, which has remained fundamentally important until today, was (Pseudo)-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Ivanović Filip
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