The Dionysian Mystical Theology introduces the Pseudo-Dionysian "mystical theology," with glimpses at key levels in its interpretation and important reception throughout the centuries. partly one, the elusive Areopagite's personal miniature essay, The Mystical Theology, is quoted in its entirety, sentence via sentence, with statement. Its cryptic contents will be nearly impenetrable with out really appropriate connection with the remainder of the Dionysian corpus: The Divine Names, The Celestial Hierarchy, The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, and the 10 Letters. Of distinct significance is the Dionysian use of negations in an "apophatic" theology that acknowledges the transcendence of God past human phrases and concepts.
Stages within the reception and critique of this Greek corpus and subject matter are sketched partly : first, the preliminary sixth-century advent and marginal reviews (Scholia) by means of John of Scythopolis; moment, the early Latin translation and observation through the ninth-century Carolingian Eriugena and the twelfth-century statement by means of the Parisian Hugh of St. Victor; and 3rd, the severe response and competition by means of Martin Luther within the Reformation. In end, the Dionysian apophatic is gifted along other kinds of unfavorable theology in gentle of recent and postmodern pursuits within the subject.
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20 At one aspect, our writer makes use of this terminology to claim “we may be taken completely out of ourselves and develop into thoroughly of God. ”21 the following, he describes how negations stand the soul open air its personal conceptual limits, a touch of religious “ecstasy” to be constructed by means of authors of later centuries, specifically because the Areopagite’s version on Mount Sinai may be invoked. on the curt end of the magical Theology, the reader also needs to take into accout Moses on the finish of bankruptcy 1: during this darkness or cloud of unknowing, “being neither oneself nor another person, one is supremely united to the thoroughly unknown [God] by way of an state of no activity of all wisdom and understands past the brain by means of realizing not anything. ”22 the top or target is union with God, yet because it is a union past figuring out and with the “unknown” God, no description is feasible. The unexpected silence turns out intentional. In a hard-won popularity of the awe-inspiring transcendence of God, not anything extra should still or may be stated. 20. See 130n266 of the Paulist version, and Biblical and Liturgical Symbols, 137–38. 21. DN 7 865D, 194. 12–15, 106. 22. MT 1 1001A, one hundred forty four. 9–15, 137, mentioned above. fifty seven PART II phases of Dionysian Reception and Interpretation 1 The Doctrinal matters of the 1st Dionysian Scholiast, John of Scythopolis inside of a iteration in their first recorded visual appeal, the Dionysian writings attracted the eye of an editor and commentator who further either an creation and likewise (marginal) scholia to the corpus, influencing next readers vastly. 1 complete remedy of the doctrinal issues of the 1st Dionysian scholiast, John of Scythopolis (d. 548), will require complete insurance of his Prologue to the Areopagite’s works and of all his Scholia (somewhat over 550 reviews, totaling good over a hundred columns of text). 2 His 1. First released as “The Doctrinal matters of the 1st Dionysian Scholiast, John of Scythopolis,” in Denys l’Aréopagite et sa postérité en Orient et en Occident ed. Ysabel de Andia (Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1997), 187-200. © Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, via permission. 2. For an creation and translation, see Scholia. an important bibliography approximately John of Scythopolis and his paintings at the Dionysian corpus is via Beate Regina Suchla, as indicated under. for a fast cartoon of John’s existence and paintings, plus common bibliography and an sixty one THE DIONYSIAN MYSTICAL THEOLOGY significant theological matters, even if, may be brought by means of connection with a unmarried short scholion. brought on by way of a cryptic word within the Areopagite’s Letter eight, John announces that “By ‘as a complete’ he capacity the Lord who by way of taking either soul and physique has kept us ‘as wholes’ [composed] of either soul and physique. ”3 John’s Prologue in protection of the orthodoxy and authenticity of the Dionysian writings exhibits the parts of doctrine in query: yet a few dare to abuse the divine Dionysius with fees of heresy, being themselves completely unaware of issues of heresy. For definitely, in the event that they have been to envision all the goods condemned one of the heretics, they might notice that the lessons of those babblers are as some distance [from truth], as precise mild is from darkness.