Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Greek philosopher · Academics · Lived 500 to 600 · aged 100
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Something wrong?A Greek theologian writing around 500 AD who borrowed the name of a first-century convert to lend his mystical texts ancient authority - and it worked. His writings on how God can only be described by what He is not shaped Christian thought for a thousand years.
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Pseudo-Dionysius, De ecclesiastica hierarchia, Milan, M 87 sup
Pseudo-DionysiusIn their own words 3
, The indefiniteness beyond being
In preeminence, the cause of all that is sensible is not anything sensible.
In preeminence, the cause of all that is intelligible is not anything intelligible.
About this person
Writing in the late 5th to early 6th century, this anonymous Christian theologian and Neoplatonic philosopher produced the Corpus Areopagiticum under a stolen identity: he claimed to be Dionysius the Areopagite, the Athenian whom Paul converted in Acts 17:34. The disguise held for centuries. His actual contribution was Mystical Theology and related works that fused Greek philosophy with Christian doctrine, establishing him as the founder of apophatic theology - the idea that God is best approached through negation, by naming what He is not. The pseudonym gave him a voice that echoed through medieval Europe long after the trick was exposed.
Academics born in the 500s 6
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