DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE, SAINT

ârēŏpˈəjīt, 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. During the Middle Ages he was revered as the author of certain philosophical writings erroneously attributed to him since the 6th cent. These are ten letters and four treatises (The Celestial Hierarchy, The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, The Divine Names, Mystical Theology) written in Greek, possibly in Palestine, in the late 5th or early 6th cent. It is now customary to refer to their author as Pseudo-Dionysius. Their obscure style was no barrier to their study and repeated translation into Latin, notably by Erigena and Robert Grosseteste. They exerted a lasting influence on the development of scholasticism, particularly through St. Thomas Aquinas. The treatises provided a medium for transmission to Western culture of the concepts of Neoplatonism and of the theology of angels. Feast: Oct. 9.

See studies by D. Rutledge (1965) and R. F. Hathaway (1970).

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John of Scythopolis and the Dionysian Corpus: Annotating the Areopagite
Book by Paul Rorem, John C. Lamoreaux; Clarendon Press, 1998
Subjects: John--Bishop Of Scythopolis--6th Cent, Pseudo-Dionysius--The Areopagite
...Prologue to the works of Dionysius the Areopagite. JOHNS CAREER It...quoting the reference to Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris...argument for the integrity of Dionysius. The Areopagite had apostolic authority...
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Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works
Book by Pseudo-Dionysius, Colm Luibheid; Paulist Press, 1987
Subjects: God--Knowableness, Mysticism, Sacraments, Spiritual Life--Christianity
...migration to the West, Dionysius the Areopagite acquired even further...when Hilduin of Saint-Denis, who was...50. in which the Areopagite was identified with Dionysius, bishop of Paris...converted by a sermon of Saint Paul that has been...
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Forerunners of Saint Francis and Other Studies
Book by Ellen Scott Davison, Gertrude R. B. Richards; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927
Subjects: Church History--Middle Ages, France--Social Life And Customs, Monasticism And Religious Orders--Middle Ages
...groups: the one centering about the forerunners of Saint Francis of Assisi the theme...PART I THE FORERUNNERS OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI...anniversary of the death of Saint Francis. The automobile road from Rome...
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Basic Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas - Vol. 2
Book by Anton C. Pegis; Hackett Publishing, 1997
Subjects: Catholic Church--Doctrines, Theology, Doctrinal
...The good is the object of every appetite; and Dionysius says that all...not ensue from the intention of an...In this sense Dionysius says that evil...form and end, the action that is...therefore does Dionysius say that evil...
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Basic Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas - Vol. 1
Book by Anton C. Pegis, St. Thomas Aquinas; Hackett Publishing, 1997
Subjects: Catholic Church--Doctrines, Theology, Doctrinal
...has written commentaries on two works of Boethius De Trinitate, De Hebdomadibus , 1257-1258 , on Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite De Divinis Nominibus , about 1261 , and on the anonymous and important Book of Causes Liber...
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Filling the Blanks: A Middle Dutch Dionysius Quotation and the Origins of the Rothschild Canticles
Journal article by Wybren Scheepsma; Medium Aevum, Vol. 70, 2001
Subjects: Manuscripts, Medieval--Analysis, Yale University. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library--Collections and collecting
...Saint Dionysius says: Those who have...in the world of material...where the works of Dionysius began to find their way into German. (31) The earliest work in which the Areopagite plays a substantial...
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Aquinas on God-Talk: Hovering over the Abyss
Journal article by Gregory P. Rocca; Theological Studies, Vol. 54, 1993
Subjects: Analogy--Religious aspects, God--Knowableness, Thomas Aquinas, Saint--Philosophy
...Theology for;Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical...Notion of Infinitude in Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita," Journal of Theological...Antoine Dondaine, "La lettre de Saint Thomas a labbe du Montcassin...
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The Chapel of the Courtesan and the Quarrel of the Magdalens
Journal article by Christopher L. C E Witcombe; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 84, 2002
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Mary Magdalene, Saint, Penni, Gianfrancesco (1488?-1528?), Romano, Giulio (Giulio Pippi de Gianuzzi) (1499-1546), Rome Italy, Royalty
...between the figure at the left in both scenes watching with bearded chin in hand as well as the figure of Dionysius the Areopagite, converted by Saint Pauls preaching, on the right in the one print and the figure with a similar open-armed gesture in...
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Thomas Aquinas on the Ultimate Why Question: Why Is There Anything at All Rather Than Nothing Whatsoever? *
Journal article by John F. Wippel; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 60, 2007
Subjects: Apologetics--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Church history, Metaphysics--Analysis, Thomas Aquinas, Saint--Religious aspects
...Jones, "An Absolutely Simple God? Reading Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite," The Thomist 69 (2005): 403-4. (25) In De divinis...Jones, "An Absolutely Simple God? Reading Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite," The Thomist 69 (2005): 403-4, who cites two texts...
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The Wisdom of Holy Fools in Postmodernity
Journal article by Peter C. Phan; Theological Studies, Vol. 62, 2001
Subjects: Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)--Analysis, Postmodernism--Analysis, Wisdom--Religious aspects
...la doctrine spirituelle de saint Gregoire de Nysse (Paris: Aubier...Steiner, 1955). (35) See Dionysius the Areopagite, On the Divine Names and Mystical...Symbolism, Logic and Foundations in Dionysius the Areopagite, John Scotus Eriugena and Nicholas...
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Saints and Cities in Medieval Italy
Magazine article by Diana Webb; History Today, Vol. 43, July 1993
Subjects: Christian communities--History, Christian patron saints--History, Italy--History
...promotion was undertaken by the monks of St Denis, just to the north of Paris, on behalf of their saint, mistakenly identified with Dionysius the Areopagite who was converted by St Paul; as a result of their special relationship with the kings of France...
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ARGUING ABOUT GOD : On Planes, in Bars & Even in the Classroom
Magazine article by Grant Gallicho; Commonweal, Vol. 128, September 28, 2001
Subjects: Religion--Personal narratives, Theology--Study and teaching
...by writing the more important names on the blackboard: Luther in the center, Simone Weil, Sophocles, Calvin, Dionysius the Areopagite, and others, surrounding each with arrows pointing to and from Luther, each other, and the edge of the blackboard...
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Anselm Kiefer: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Magazine article by Nord Wennerstrom; Artforum International, Vol. 44, March 2006
Subjects: Art museums--Surveys, Art, Modern--Surveys, Exhibitions--Surveys, Kiefer, Anselm, Modern art--Surveys, Modernism (Art)--Surveys
...refreshing way to examine the diverse sources that inform the artists works, such as the thinking of the Greek saint Dionysius the Areopagite (as addressed in The Hierarchy of Angels, 1985-97), the theories of English mystic Robert Fludd (The Secret...
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The Dark Night of Mother Teresa
Magazine article by Carol Zaleski; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May 2003
Subjects: Canonization, Christian women saints--Biography, Faith--Analysis, Teresa, Mother--Biography
...was not the God-intoxicated saint many of us had assumed her to...get us ordinary worldlings off the hook. How else could this unremarkable...to the Christian Neoplatonist Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite and his liturgically inspired...


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Angel Thought for the Day
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 30, 2004
...SVD, Fr. Jerry Orbos. Another saint who Filipino Catholics know and...and he is S. Francis of Assisi, the first environmentalist. He worked...by a Christian theologian named Dionysius the Areopagite. He formulated the hierarchy...


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Dionysius the Areopagite, Saint
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Areopagite
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Maximus, Saint
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Denis, Saint
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Montmartre . His shrine was Saint-Denis . The Latin of the name is Dionysius; he was long identified with Dionysius the Areopagite . Feast: Oct. 9...Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University...
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