Dionysius the Areopagite. Because of his quasi-apostolic authority Dionysius's influence was unparalleled.
Dionysius the Areopagite referred to the divine energies as processions, principles, determinations, and divine volitions, (37) while John of Damascus wrote in this regard of the divine radiance and activity.
See the analysis of this problem in Heirmonk Alexander Golitzin, Et Introibo ad Altare Dei: On the Mystagogy of
Dionysius the Areopagite and His Predecessors in the Eastern Christian Tradition (Thessalonika: Patriarchikon Idryma Paterikon Meleton, 1994), 21-41, 415-21.
Four of the papers are on Gregory of Nyssa, others engage with
Dionysius the Areopagite, Origen, and Augustine.
The Anonymous Naming of Names: Pseudonymity and Philosophical Program in
Dionysius the Areopagite, CHRISTIAN SCHAFER
How angels, which have strong connotations of pagan idolatry, came to be represented at all in Christian imagery Peers investigates in his inquiry into the theology of Pseudo
Dionysius the Areopagite (among others), who sees them as a means to spiritual engagement with the divine.
There are two pieces on
Dionysius the Areopagite, both given at a Master-theme at the Eleventh Patristics Conference in Oxford in 1991.
Symbol & icon;
Dionysius the Areopagite and the iconoclastic crisis.
Without any depiction of the fall of Adam or of the felix culpa of Pauline theology, the pages of
Dionysius the Areopagite do not seem to offer much by way of explaining evil.
The apophatic motifs in question tend to cluster around the notions of hiddenness and incomprehensibility, while the negative theology in question is that found in such thinkers as Clement of Alexandria,
Dionysius the Areopagite, Meister Eckhart, and Nicholas of Cusa.
Cloth, $75.00--In the earlier part of the sixth century, John of Scythopolis collected and edited the writings of
Dionysius the Areopagite. Elevated to the episcopacy of the important see of Palestina Secunda, sometime between 538 and 544, John not only gathered these texts of Dionysius, he also lent his own Neochalcedonian Christology to them in order to have one more apostolic authority from which to quote against the Monophysites of his day.
John is perhaps better known as the earliest defender of the writings of
Dionysius the Areopagite, which had only recently appeared.
