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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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The Platonic Milieu of Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite [PDF]

Journal of Early Christian History, 2013
The Platonic milieu is the most significant of the possible milieus that can be attributed to the Proto-Hesychast Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite. The present article hypothesizes that Dionysius’ master Hierotheus was Isidore of Alexandria, a disciple of the Neoplatonist Proclus, and posits that Dionysius’ locale was Egyptian rather than Syrian ...
Sabo, Theodore, Lioy, Dan, Fick, Rikus
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The Perception of God through Light in Plato and Dionysius the Areopagite

Philosophies
This 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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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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Dionysius the Areopagite and the Legacy of Iamblichus

Patristica et Mediaevalia
Neoplatonism takes a significant turn when Iamblichus integrates a mystical perspective based on the Chaldean Oracles into his doctrine. This compilation of fragments, which can be traced back to Babylonian Zoroastrianism, emerged in Hellenistic ...
Gustavo Riesgo
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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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Christian Apophaticism in Jean-Luc Marion’s Early Works

Verbum Vitae, 2023
In this article, I investigate Jean-Luc Marion’s early interpretation of Christian apophaticism with special reference to his reading of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. I observe that the most remarkable, but rarely noted, aspect of this interpretation
Johannes Zachhuber
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Aquinas on Wisdom

New Blackfriars, Volume 104, Issue 1114, Page 726-750, November 2023., 2023
Abstract The topic of wisdom attracted much less attention in modern thought than in ancient and medieval times. However, there has been a renewal of interest in it in recent psychology and philosophy, and a variety of questions has emerged from this current work.
Paul O'Grady
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