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Ontology and Desire in Dionysius the Areopagite
2019This chapter focuses on a discussion of the work of Dionysius the Areopagite, a key figure in the formation of the Christian mystical tradition. The chapter explores Dionysius’s work, its distinctive characteristics—which arise principally from Dionysius’s idiosyncratic coupling of Christian theology and Neoplatonism—and the mixed legacy he bequeaths ...
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The Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite
2022Abstract The handbook contains forty essays by over thirty contributors from various universities on the antecedents, the content, and the reception of the Dionysian corpus, a body of writings falsely ascribed to Dionysius the Areopagite, a convert of St Paul, but actually written about ad 500.
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The Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite
2014This chapter attempts to reverse the priorities and suggests a study, first of all, of the logical and philosophical ideas of Dionysius per se , without searching for their possible Greek background in those cases for which this is not already known. A much more important and broader consideration serves as a foundation: to inscribe Dionysius not only
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Neoplatonic Theurgy and Dionysius the Areopagite
Journal of Early Christian Studies, 1999Until recently, Neoplatonic theurgy has been defined by scholars as an attempt to manipulate the gods through ritual, and its influence in late antique Platonic circles has been interpreted as evidence for the decline of Greek rationality caused in large part by the teachings of the fourth-century Syrian Platonist, Iamblichus.
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A Defense of Dionysius the Areopagite by Rubens
Journal of the History of Ideas, 1991The frontispieces of Peter Paul Rubens, collected ten years ago into a corpus by Judson and Van de Velde, have not received as much critical attention as the painted works by the artist. As Julius Held has suggested, the artist sought to present "in allegorical terms, and in a severely limited space, a condensation of the contents of a given book or at
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Dionysius the Areopagite and Nicholas of Cusa
2022AbstractNicholas of Cusa (Cusanus) attributes three of his most important principles to Dionysius the Areopagite: Complicatio-explicatio, Docta ignorantia, and Non-aliud. According to Nicholas, God is the Complicatio, the unfolding of all being, he is, in an intellectual way, complicating everything and, at the same time, the ‘cancelled’.Perhaps the ...
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Note on the Apophasis in Dionysius the Areopagite
2022Este artigo se propõe a demonstrar que a retomada dionisiana da henologia neoplatônica não ocorre sem algumas mudanças devido à influência da teologia cristã no neoplatonismo. A mais importante delas é a revalorização do discurso positivo sobre a divindade, possível graças à negação por transcendência que permite afirmar que Deus é, levando em ...
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The christology of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Museon, 2004The present study aims at a complex investigation into the meaning and the text of the Fourth Letter of Pseudo-Dionysius. For this endeavour it uses methods pertaining to the history of philosophy, the history of theology, philology, text criticism, the study of text transmission, and Quellenforschung.
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