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St. Augustine and Pseudo|Dionysius


Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius - Introduction to Philosophy Pages

Thus, Pseudo-Dionysius' focus of The Divine Names is how to name the divine, to name, and thus to know, that which exceeds all that we can possibly know. He ...

This article argues that Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite was a ...

Some of your historical facts are off. For example Augustine died in 430AD while most modern scholars believe Pseudo-dionysius to have written ...

Medieval Theories of Aesthetics | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius were mainly influenced by Plato and Neoplatonism, while Thomas was mostly influenced by Aristotle. Due to their impact on the ...

Silence and Spiritual Experience in Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius ...

The purpose of the essay, Silence and Spiritual Experience in Augustine, Denys, and Claudel, is to illustrate the experience of God from the harmonious ...

Negative Theology in the Thought of Saint Augustine - jstor

approaching divine reality. What distinguishes Augustine (and other more predominantly. "kataphatic" thinkers) trom Proclus, Gregory ot Nyssa, Pseudo. Dionysius ...

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Dionysius' fictitious identity, doubted already in the sixth century by Hypatius of Ephesus and later by Nicholas of Cusa, was first seriously ...

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (fl. 500 CE)

Dionysius is the author of three long treatises (The Divine Names, The Celestial Hierarchy, and The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy) one short treatise (The Mystical ...

Eriugena: The Medieval Irish Genius Between Augustine and Aquinas

Here Eriugena daringly incorporates the negative theology of Pseudo-Dionysius in what is an unusual definition of nature. While we cannot know the divine ...

Platonism - Augustinian, Philosophy, Theology | Britannica

In his anthropology Augustine was firmly Platonist, insisting on the soul's superiority to and independence of the body.

St. Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius: Pioneers of Medieval ...

St. Augustine, influenced by Platonic and Neoplatonic ideas, distinguishes divine creation from human art, emphasizing truth in art and the ...

Pseudo-Augustine - Wikipedia

Pseudo-Augustine is the name given by scholars to the authors, collectively, of works falsely attributed to Augustine of Hippo. Augustine himself in his ...

History of Philosophy 23

Dionysius the Areopagite, of whom mention is made in the Acts of the Apostles, are now universally acknowledged to belong to the end of the fifth century. They ...

Aquinas and Pseudo-Dionysius on God as beyond being

Augustine's Press, 2019), 16; Wayne J. Hankey, God In Himself: Aquinas' Doctrine of God as Expounded in the Summa Theologiae, reprint ed., ( ...

Image and analogy in Augustine's De Trinitate and the Dionysian ...

It is in recognition of this importance that leads one to a comparative study of Saint Augustine (354-430 AD) and the Pseudo Dionysius (5th ...

Thomas Aquinas, Proclus, and Dionysius - Taylor Marshall

This means that Dionysius is one of the most quoted sources for Thomas – right up there with Augustine and Aristotle. Modern scholars hold that the works of ...

From Augustine to Eriugena (Chapter 1)

... of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. This enigmatic author, probably a fifth-century Syrian monk, adopted the literary identity of a first-century Athenian ...

First thoughts upon finishing Dionysius' Celestial Hierarchy

First things first, for readers of this blog: Ps-Dionysius is the author of a corpus of mystical-theological works, pretending to by the ...

Aquinas the Augustinian - CUAPress

While happily granting the influence of such figures as Aristotle and Pseudo-Dionysius, this book explores the impact of Augustine's thought on Aquinas's ...

Augustine, Dionysius and Jean-Luc Marion | Mystical Theology and C

In his early and groundbreaking works, The Idol and Distance and God without Being, Jean-Luc Marion retrieved the mystical theology of Dionysius the.

Pseudo-Dionysius in the Twelfth Century Latin West

While Augustine had proposed his own understanding of Neoplatonism and its relationship to the Christian life, from Pseudo- Dionysius twelfth-century writers ...