1st Edition
Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonist Tradition Despoiling the Hellenes
By Sarah Klitenic Wear
Copyright 2007
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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'Dionysius the Areopagite' is arguably one of the most mysterious and intriguing figures to emerge from the late antique world. Writing probably around 500 CE, and possibly connected with the circle of Severus of Antioch, Dionysius manipulates a Platonic metaphysics to describe a hierarchical universe: as with the Hellenic Platonists, he arranges the celestial and material cosmos into a series of... Read more
Contents: Introduction; God as Monad in the Divine Names; God as Trinity in the Divine Names; On hierarchy; The problem of evil; Scriptural interpretation as onomastic theurgy; Hierourgia and Theourgia in sacramental activity; Union and return to God: The Mystical Theology and the first hypothesis of the Parmenides; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Sarah Klitenic Wear, John Dillion
