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Areopagite: see Dionysius the Areopagite, Saint Dionysius the Areopagite, Saint , fl. 1st cent. A.D., Athenian Christian, converted by St. Paul. Acts 17.34. Tradition has made him a martyr and the first bishop of Athens. He has been confused with St. Denis.
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No references found | The Areopagite was furthermore the first to introduce the concept of "unknown knowing" to the Western world. In the sixth century Dionysius the Areopagite emphasized the superiority of mystical knowledge--which does not rely on words or reason--over a purely rational knowledge of God. Therefore it did not come as a shock when, in the sixth century, there appeared a corpus of Greek writings that seemed to have blended Christian and Neoplatonic elements almost indiscriminately and that bore the name of Dionysius the Areopagite. |
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