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Eros as the Meeting of Ecstasies in Christ: The Eucharistic Link between Divine and Human Love in Dionysius the Areopagite

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Dionysius's vision of eros as a meeting of reciprocal ecstasies – where lover and beloved each pass out of themselves and into the other – has often been read as unifying dimensions of love otherwise thought to stand in tension, such as giving and receiving.
Noah Karger
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The Influence of the Renaissance on Richard Hooker

open access: yesPerichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2014
Like many writers after the Renaissance, Hooker was influenced by a number of classical and Neo-Platonic texts, especially by Cicero, Seneca, Hermes Trimegistus, and Pseudo-Dionysius.
Grislis Egil
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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One aspect of the methodology of cognition in Plato and Dionysius the Areopagite [PDF]

open access: yesSCHOLE, 2008
Petr Moiseev (Perm State Institute of Arts and Culture)shows how the concept of ascension to truth, first formulated by Plato, was later reworked and reevaluated in new cognitive context by such later thinkers, as Plutarch, Iamblichus and, finally ...
Moiseev, Petr
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Per dynamin – per energian: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 220-243, May 2025.
This paper investigates Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek. It proceeds from three questions. First, what resources for learning Greek were available in tenth‐century Germany? Second, were there any figures in her ambit from whom she could have learned?
Graham Robert Johnson
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Dos alegatos místicos a favor del « no pensar nada »: el Tercer Abecedario espiritual (1527) y la Ley de amor (1530) de Francisco de Osuna

open access: yesCahiers d’études des cultures ibériques et latino-américaines, 2017
A mystic principle rooted in negative theology (from Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite to Saint John of the Cross), the « no pensar nada » (« thinking-nothing ») was strongly defended by Franciscan preacher and spiritual guide of the « Recollection ...
Estelle Garbay-Velázquez
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Living on This Earth as in Heaven: Time and the Ecological Conversion of Eschatology

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 833-858, October 2024.
Abstract Eschatological and apocalyptic patterns of thought are today prominent in environmental discourse, across multiple disciplines and media. Yet some theologians criticise these thought patterns for their role in perpetuating and even causing the environmental degradation we now witness. This article argues that the construal of salvation and the
Gunnar Gjermundsen
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Lo Bello y la belleza en el comentario Tomasino al De Divinis Nominibus [The Beautiful and Beauty in St. Thomas’ Commentary to De Divinis Nominibus] [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana, 2016
While St. Thomas Aquinas has not written any separate treaty on beauty, the theme of beauty regularly appears in his writing from its very beginning as that which corresponds with the Platonic doctrine presented by Dionysius the Areopagite in his De ...
Hugo Costarelli Brandi
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The Platonic-Biblical Origins of Apophatic Theology: Philo of Alexandria’s Philosophical Interpretation of the Pentateuchal Theophanies

open access: yesVerbum Vitae, 2023
This article examines Philo’s philosophical interpretation of the three theophanies in Exodus, which would, centuries later, continue to be considered by the great thinkers responsible for developing negative theology, such as Gregory of Nyssa and ...
Damian Mrugalski
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