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	Dionysius the Areopagite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dionysius the Areopagite was the judge of the Areopagus who, as related in Acts of the Apostles, xvii, 34, was converted to Christianity by the preaching of Saint Paul.
		According to Dionysius of Corinth, quoted by Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiae III: iv, this Dionysius then became a bishop of Athens.
		Dionysius was also popularly mis-identified with the martyr of Gaul, Dionysius, the first Bishop of Paris, Saint Denis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dionysius_the_Areopagite (184 words)

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		Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1st century bc), Greek historian and critic.
		Dionysius the Elder (circa 430-367 bc), tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily (405-367 bc).
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	Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, also known as pseudo-Denys, is the name scholars have given to an anonymous theologian and philosopher of the 5th century, who wrote a collection of books (Corpus Areopagiticum) falsely ascribed to the Dionysius mentioned in Acts 17:34.
		The author was historically believed to be the Areopagite because he claimed aquaintance with biblical characters.
		Georgian academician Shalva Nutsubidze and Belgian professor Ernest Honigmann were authors of a theory identitifying pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite with Peter the Iberian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pseudo-Dionysius_the_Areopagite (638 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite
		By "Dionysius the Areopagite" is usually understood the judge of the Areopagus who, as related in Acts, xvii, 34, was converted to Christianity by the preaching of St. Paul, and according to Dionysius of Corinth (Eusebius, Hist.
		Through the latter the false idea that the Gallic martyr Dionysius of the third century, whose relics were preserved in the monastery of Saint-Denys, was identical with the Areopagite rose to an undoubted certainty, while the works ascribed to Dionysius gained in repute.
		Dionysius Areopagita in der Lehre vom Uebel in Hist.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05013a.htm (5049 words)

	Theosophy Library Online - Great Teacher Series - DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For Dionysius, human existence is made significant by the fusion of theoria and praxis, theory and practice.
		Dionysius the Areopagite taught that man should not humanize God; he should divinize man and thus reflect in his thought and action the universal order.
		The Areopagite's torch, sometimes held high, sometimes veiled, was carried down the centuries in the theologies of light in the Eastern churches and the blazing insights of Western mystics, revivifying, dignifying and preserving the teachings of Jesus, the Son of Man who called upon all human beings to become true sons of God.
	theosophy.org /tlodocs/teachers/DionysusTheAreopagite.htm (2974 words)

	Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
		Dionysius the Areopagite, an Athenian member of the judicial council, the Areopagus, who was converted instantly by St. Paul, his work, strictly speaking, might be regarded as a successful “forgery”, providing him with impeccable Christian credentials that conveniently antedated Plotinus by over two hundred years.
		Dionysius' fictitious identity, doubted already in the sixth century by Hypatius of Ephesus and later by Nicholas of Cusa, was first seriously called into question by Lorenzo Valla in 1457 and John Grocyn in 1501, a critical viewpoint later accepted and publicized by Erasmus from 1504 onward.
		Dionysius adopts the word theurgy, “god–work”, together with theology, “god–word”, to describe the inmost reality of this practice, adopting it from the later Neoplatonist understanding of a hidden sympathy or interconnectedness between material things and the sacred, divine significances resident in them by virtue of divine power.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/pseudo-dionysius-areopagite (8185 words)

	Dionysius the Areopagite
		A minor problem can be said to arise here with respect to Dionysius calling himself an Areopagite in the sense that he came along about 1000 years after the council ceased to exist in the real world.
		I say that only because Dionysius limits his subject to aspects of Christian ideology one can only see, and bear witness to, through the eyes of faith and never once reduces his discourse to the mundane level of anything, or any idea, susceptible to verification through ordinary means associated with human reason.
		To say that his discourse is irrational, therefore, only means to suggest that it lies well beyond the realm of anything anyone has ever seen in a state of consciousness not wholly agitated by divine aspirations of the kind that always seem to lead one to hallucinogenic frenzy.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/9976/dionysius1.html (1493 words)

	Forthcoming in Mystics: Presence and Aporia, ed
		Dionysius' Isaiah does not see the Glory of God within the earthly temple, as in the biblical text, but is "lifted up" by his angel guide to look upon the heavenly throne and liturgy, which the angel then explains to him.
		Dionysius is not at all interested in denying the theophanies of the Old Testament nor, by extension I think, the visionary experiences of his contemporaries.
		Dionysius begins his meditation on altar and chrism in EH 4.3.1 with, quite significantly, a lengthy consideration of the holy man. It is such people, he tells us, who "are the truly divine images of that infinitely divine fragrance" which has chosen to take up its abode "within their intellects".
	www.marquette.edu /maqom/Suddenly (11055 words)

	Dionysius the Areopagite
		Dionysius the Areopagite was the Bishop of Athens in the first century.
		Dionysius first studied at Athens and a member of the court of the Areopagus.
		Dionysius was educated in all the useful and ornamental literature of Greece.
	latter-rain.com /ltrain/diony.htm (1627 words)

	Orthodox Icon of St. Dionysius the Areopagite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		O holy Hieromartyr Dionysius, thou wast fully instructed, sober in action, with a good conscience as befits a priest.
		Dionysius was born in a noble family in Athens.
		When Dionysius was 90 years old, the three of them were arrested, tortured and beheaded for Christ.
	www.comeandseeicons.com /cap10.htm (289 words)

	Dionysius the Areopagite - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The holy, glorious and right-victorious Hieromartyr Dionysius the Areopagite was baptized by Saint Paul in Athens and is numbered among the Seventy Apostles.
		Prior to this, Dionysius grew up in a notable family in Athens, attended philosophical school at home and abroad, was married with several children, and was a member of the highest court in Greece, the Areopagus.
		In the year 96, St. Dionysius was seized and tortured for Christ, along with Rusticus and Eleutherius, and all three were beheaded under the reign of the Emperor Domitian.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Dionysius_the_Areopagite (333 words)

	Dionysius the Areopagite -- Pseudo or Not? Homer D. Klong Investigates!
		Dionysius the Areopagite was a real person who lived in Athens, Greece, in the 1st Century.
		According to some, Dionysius was one of the council of nine judges of the Areopagus (literally, Mars Hill).
		Here is a long excerpt from the Celestial Hierarchy, with footnotes at the bottom so you may compare passages of Dionysius with passages from Plotinus (3rd Century) and Proclus (5th Century).
	www.angelfire.com /ca4/seneca/dionysius.html (1320 words)

	A History of Western Philosophy 2.3
		For long centuries he was believed to have been Denis or Dionysius the Areopagite, a convert of St. Paul, and the Corpus Areopagiticum received the attention and respect commensurate with that belief.
		Dionysius is a theologian; the whole burden of his works might be described as the exposition of what man can know of God and how, knowing him, he can name God.
		The most striking point about Dionysius is his insistence that the object of his concern is wholly beyond the ability of man to comprehend.
	www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/hwp203.htm (1104 words)

	Based on a lecture given, by invitation of the Lumen Christi Society, at the Faculty of Theology, University of ...
		Dionysius uses this scenario to expand at length on the virtues of meekness (praotes), mercy, and love, which in a very traditional way (reminiscent, in fact, of Evagrius) he understands as the prerequisites for the visio dei.
		Dionysius moves on to declare that the treatise is to be limited entirely to "what scripture has disclosed" in the "hidden depths" of the names it has given God (86), names which, as he implies elsewhere, are, we might say, sacramental in their character (87).
		Dionysius Areopagita in der Lehre vom Übel", HJ 16 (1895) 253-73 and 721-48.
	www.marquette.edu /maqom/Lumxida.html (17662 words)

	Dionysius Areopagite: Self-Surpassing Knowledge
		Dionysius and Proclus alike are emphatic in their stress upon the utter transcendence of divine Being: the One is not only greater than all creation, it transcends even the notion of greatness.
		Dionysius here begins a strong exhortation to apophaticism: a method of theology for which he is often given credit as one of its first major exponents.
		Speaking first of the sense-perceptions, Dionysius writes: 'But then he [Moses] breaks free of them, away from what sees and is seen, and he plunges into the truly mysterious darkness of unknowing' [15].
	www.monachos.net /patristics/denys_knowledge.shtml (3376 words)

	Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) pp.i-viii. Introduction.
		Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria, A.D. Sergius of Ras'ain.
		Unfortunately the Codex produced at the Greek and Latin Council, in the Lateran, A.D. 660, is not in the Vatican, the whole Library in the tower of Santa Francisca having been destroyed in 1219.
		There is, in the Vatican, a letter in Latin from Dionysius to St. Paul, in which he speaks of the beauty of the blessed Virgin, no doubt as seen in death.
	www.tertullian.org /fathers/areopagite_01_intro.htm (312 words)

	Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) p.139-140. Preface to the Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dionysius shews his reverence for God's holy word, by never seeking to explain away, or to substitute what seems a less miracle for a greater.
		Dionysius describes the darkness at the time of the Crucifixion, as it 140 appeared in Egypt, and is recorded by Phlegon.
		From the letter to St. John in Patmos, we learn the love between St. John arid Dionysius, and that St. John was then Called the "Sun of the Gospel." From the letter to Apollophanes, we know that the prayers of Dionysius for the conversion of his friend did not fall to the ground.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /fathers/areopagite_07_preface.htm (340 words)

	Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Presenting himself as Dionysius the Areopagite, the disciple of Paul mentioned in Acts 17:34, his writings had the status of apostolic authority until the 19th century when studies had shown the writings denoted a marked influence from the Athenian Neoplatonic school of Proclus and thus were probably written ca.
		Although the attribution of authorship has proven to be a falsification, the unknown author (hereafter referred to as Ps-Dionysius) has not lost his credibility as an articulate Athenian Neoplatonist expressing an authentic Christian mystical tradition.
		Chapter 1 Dionysius the Elder to Timothy the Fellow Elder: What the goal of this discourse is, and the tradition regarding the divine names.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/p/pseudodi.htm (3909 words)

	Saints of October 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Popular accounts of the life of St. Denis are confused because the lives of two other persons from different periods have been combined with his: Denis or Dionysius (a) the Areopagite of Acts 17:34, (b) the bishop martyr of Paris, and (c) the 5th c.
		The Areopagite was the first bishop of Athens according to St. Dionysius of Corinth, a 3rd century writer.
		Dionysius the Areopagite was converted in Athens by St. Paul (Acts 17).
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/1009.htm (539 words)

	Encyclopedia: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pseudepigrapha (from the Greek words pseudos = lie and epigrapho = write) is a text or a number of texts whose claimed authorship or authenticity is incorrect.
		Dionysius the Areopagite was the judge of the Areopagus who, as related in Acts, xvii, 34, was converted to Christianity by the preaching of Saint Paul.
		The word relic comes from the Latin reliquiae (remains) and there are many pre-Christian instances of some bone or other part of the corpse, or some intimately associated object, carefully preserved with an air of veneration as a tangible memorial.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pseudo_Dionysius-the-Areopagite (1441 words)

	St Dionysis
		St Dionysius the Areopagite was one of the first Athenian disciples of the Apostle Paul (Acts 17:34) and the first bishop of Athens.
		It is generally accepted that these works, in their present form, were probably written in the fifth century, because they seem to have been unknown to earlier Christian centuries, and their style and content indicate that they are later in date.
		St Dionysius uses the symbol of 'darkness' with the meaning expressed in Exodus 20:21 - The people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
	home.it.net.au /~jgrapsas/pages/dionysis.htm (489 words)

	ORB --
		Hilduin, abbot of St.-Denis, a monastery on the outskirts of Paris placed under the patronage of Dionysius, saw this as an opportunity to increase the prestige of his abbey.
		He argued that Dionysius was not only bishop of Athens but later bishop of Paris and was now buried in the monastery of St.-Denis where he was the abbot.
		It is undisputed that Suger, abbot of St. Denis (1122-1151) drew on Dionysian light mysticism for the justification of the stained glass windows and symbolism throughout the abbey church (Panofsky 19- 26).
	www.the-orb.net /encyclop/culture/philos/coulter.html (4796 words)

	Pseudo-Dionysius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dionysius the Areopagite--or, more properly, Pseudo-Dionysius--was a Neoplatonic Christian mystic who is noted for his esoteric writings on the mysteries of Divine Wisdom, goodness beyond comprehension, First Principles, the nature of God, and the concept of beyond-being.
		Like Saint John of the Cross, he wrote about angels and darkness, but the "Divine Darkness" of Pseudo-Dionysius was of a different category--a transcendent realm beyond light.
		Written barely within the limits of intelligibility, these treatises supposedly originated in the first century but in reality were penned under this pseudonym in the late fifth century or early sixth century.
	www.alcott.net /alcott/home/champions/Dionysius.html (145 words)

	Dionysius The Areopagite - God Cannot Be Perceived
		Dionysius The Areopagite, probably a Syrian monk from the late 5th or early 6th century, brings out the true and unknown nature of God, neither a "He" nor a "She" but an "It," being incomprehensible to the human intellect, in many ways reflecting the second century wisdom of the Egyptian Plotinus.
		Dionysius sees outside the narrow fundamentalism of biblical literalism and far beyond the erroneous man made creation of theism (An external God person, who lives somewhere in a heaven), to the both the true essence of God and that of objective truth being far beyond the human intellect and grasping hold of knowledge.
		To say it was written directly by this person is unsure, as the medieval church established contact with Neoplatoism - the teachings of second century Egyptian Plotinus which the doctrine of Plato fused with the most important elements in the Aristotelian and Stoic systems and Eastern (Indian) speculations.
	www.escapefromwatchtower.com /mysticaltheology-dionysius.html (2667 words)

	Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897). Preface to the online edition
		John Parker's translation of the complete works attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite requires some introduction, as he held views which were uncommon in his own day, and do not seem to be held today.
		The church has no special revelation on the question of the authenticity of these works; that they were considered authentic by many in the pre-modern era reflects only the lack of facilities to determine authenticity in that period.
		The unknown author of these works attempted to attribute them to Dionysius the Areopagite -- why, it is hard for us now to imagine, although he must have had a reason which seemed valid to him.
	www.tertullian.org /fathers/areopagite_00_eintro.htm (902 words)

	Dionysius the Areopagite: Mystical Theology
		Modern scholarship has settled the fact that Dionysius the Areopagite, although confused with St. Dionysius, or St. Denis the martyr and patron saint of Paris, has no historical connection with him.
		Considering the far-reaching influence of the brief but profound Mystical Theology of Dionysius, it is comparatively little known, even to students who are ardent lovers and followers of some of the great Christian mystics who were themselves the spiritual children of the pseudo-Areopagite.
		Dionysius refers to several of his treatises, but besides the Mystical Theology, the only other extant works of his are Divine Names, The Celestial Hierarchies, and The Ecclesiastical Hierarchies and various epistles.
	www.esotericarchives.com /oracle/dionys1.htm (1857 words)

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