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Hellenic and Hellenistic Origins in the Aesthetics of Pseudo-Dionysius [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2022
Text This article studies the Hellenic and Hellenistic sources of Pseudo-Dionysius on Beautiful, and its purpose is to clarify the extent of the influence of the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and Proclus on aesthetics in the thought system of ...
Seyyed Mohsen Mousavi
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Apophaticism, Mysticism, and Epoptics in Ancient and Patristic Philosophy: Some Important Examples

open access: yesVerbum Vitae, 2023
This article investigates mystic apophaticism in a set of Greek Patristic theologians, profoundly informed by philosophy, especially imperial Platonism: Clement, Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, and Pseudo-Dionysius.
Ilaria Ramelli
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The Adaptation and Development of the Proclean Notion of Κατάβασις: From Proclus to Maximus the Confessor

open access: yesReligions, 2021
This paper examines the impact of Proclus’ notion of divine descent, i.e., κατάβασις, on the formation of core theological doctrines in Pseudo-Dionysius and Maximus the Confessor.
Kyeongyoon Woo
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Christian Apophaticism in Jean-Luc Marion’s Early Works

open access: yesVerbum 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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Neoplatonic Origins of Evil in Pseudo-Dionysius's View [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت و فلسفه, 2012
Pseudo-Dionysius's view on evil was influenced by Neoplatonic tradition. Like Neoplatonic philosophers, he believed evil to be the absence of good and of no actual existence as all creatures were good and shared this quality.
amir nasri
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Looking Beyond Jerusalem: A Fifteenth‐Century Exercise in Image Comparison

open access: yesArt History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 640-666, September 2023., 2023
Critical image comparison is a widespread art‐historical practice. This essay explores why a Brabantine artist encouraged viewers to exercise it in the late fifteenth century. At the time, northern European artists tested out how images could be means of transcending the visible world while simultaneously showcasing their very constructedness. The self‐
Hanna Vorholt
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“THE GOD WITH CLAY”: THE IDEA OF DEEP INCARNATION AND THE INFORMATIONAL UNIVERSE

open access: yesZygon®, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 683-713, September 2023., 2023
Abstract This article explores the relations between the idea of deep incarnation and scientific ideas of an informational universe, in which mass, energy, and information belong together. It is argued that the cosmic Christologies developed in the vein of Cappadocian theology (fourth century) and the Franciscan theologian Bonaventure (thirteenth ...
Niels Henrik Gregersen
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Le fonti del vocabolario teologico delle Epistole dello pseudo-Dionigi Areopagita

open access: yesLexicon Philosophicum, 2019
What reveals the language of the corpus Areopagiticum that we can use to determine its origin? Is it possible to detect specific words or lexical clusters which help situate the Sitz im Leben of the corpus within a specific theological school or movement?
Nicolò Sassi
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Pseudo-Dionysius 'Art of Rhetoric' 8-11: Figured speech, declamation, and criticism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This paper considers the date and authorship of chapters 8-11 of the "Art of Rhetoric", falsely attributed to Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Analysis of the two chapters on "figured speech" suggests that chapter 9 is an unfinished attempt by the author of ...
Heath, M.
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HUGO BALL'S RELIGIOUS CONVERSION

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 376-391, July 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT This essay investigates the German ex‐Dadaist Hugo Ball (1886–1927) and his 1920s work on religious conversion from Paul, Augustine and Francis to writers and poets in modernity. This intense engagement was rooted in Ball's own radical conversion, or ‘re‐conversion’, to an austere form of the Catholicism of his childhood in 1920, just a few ...
Deborah Lewer
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