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Dionysius the Areopagite

2004
Vincent Scully, in his 1962 study of Greek temples in their landscape setting, argues that the ancient Greeks did not locate their temples without consideration to the surrounding landscape.1 As a general statement, this point hardly needs arguing, since the temples appear in locations already hallowed by myth.
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The Symbolology of Dionysius the Areopagite

Russian Studies in Philosophy, 2012
The article discusses the aesthetic aspects of the symbolology introduced by the Byzantine author of the Corpus Areopagiticum (late fifth-early sixth centuries) that was signed in the name of the pupil of the Apostle Paul, Dionysius the Areopagite. The symbolology is understood to mean knowledge of both symbols and symbolic type of consciousness and ...
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Dionysius the Areopagite and the New Testament

2022
AbstractModern scholarship has shown only minimal interest in the use of the New Testament in the corpus of writings attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite. The reason for this neglect is the long-standing focus on the relationship of these writings to later Neoplatonism, and in particular to the writings of the Athenian philosopher Proclus.
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Dionysius the Areopagite

2015
This chapter treats the Dionysian Corpus as a late antique "literary fiction" consisting of a core collection normally regarded as being the Corpus itself, a set of missing writings playing a structural role in the fiction, several layers of the textual transmission, early commentaries appended to the original core collection, and a series of legends ...
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The Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite

2022
Abstract 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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Neoplatonic Theurgy and Dionysius the Areopagite

Journal of Early Christian Studies, 1999
Until 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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The Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite

2014
This 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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INTRODUCTION—RE‐THINKING DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE

Modern Theology, 2008
AbstractIn this Introduction to “Re‐thinking Dionsyius the Areopagite” it is first explained that the volume sets out to illuminate the contemporary interest in “apophaticism” by close comparison with the original project of the CD. However, given the elusiveness and generativity of the Dionysian tradition, this can only be done adequately by also ...
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Dionysius the Areopagite and Nicholas of Cusa

2022
AbstractNicholas 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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The Apophatic Theology of Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite – I

The Downside Review, 1999
Cet article est le deuxieme d'une etude sur la theologie de Denys le pseudo Areopagite. Toutes ses oeuvres traitent des facons de connaitre Dieu. Sa conception sur la connaissance de l'Inconnaissable est le savoir empirique que l'on ne peut connaitre Dieu, ce qui vient de l'experience du divin. Mais il s'agit de distinguer l'apophatique de la negation.
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