He also translated many homilies of St. John Chrysostom ; the treatise of the Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite on the celestial hierarchy ; St.

** Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite ( 1436 )

Two other uncommon sources were promoted by Alexander: Anselm of Canterbury, whose writings had been ignored for almost a century gained an important advocate in Alexander and he used Anselm's works extensively in his teaching on Christology and soteriology ; and, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, whom Alexander used in his examination of the theology of Orders and ecclesiastical structures.

During that time the term theosopher was applied retroactively to include earlier people including Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, and Origen.

Many Christians were also influenced by Neoplatonism, most notably Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite ( before 532 ) has a predecessor version of the paradox, asking whether it is possible for God to " deny himself ".

Apophatic theology found its most influential expression in works such as those of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor ( Pseudo-Dionysius is quoted by Thomas Aquinas 1, 760 times in his Summa Theologica ).

Arriving in Constantinople around 1330, Barlaam was working on commentaries on Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite under the patronage of John VI Kantakouzenos.

It was there that he came under the tutelage of Saint Sophronius, and began studying the Christological writings of Gregory of Nazianzus and Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.

Maximus ' work on Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite was continued by John Scotus Erigena at the request of Charles the Bald.

He was also the author of rhetorical exercises on philosophical themes ; of a Quadrivium ( arithmetic, music, geometry, astronomy ), valuable for the history of music and astronomy in the Middle Ages ; a general sketch of Aristotelian philosophy ; a paraphrase of the speeches and letters of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite ; poems, including an autobiography ; and a description of the square of the Augustaeum, and the column erected by Justinian in the church of Hagia Sophia to commemorate his victories over the Persians.

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in his Celestial Hierarchy ( vii ), drew upon the Book of Isaiah in fixing the fiery nature of seraphim in the medieval imagination.

When the work claims to be that of some famous author the pseudonymous author is identified as " Pseudo -", as in Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, an author claiming — and long believed — to be Dionysius the Areopagite, an early Christian convert.

* Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

In the 1940s, the prominent art-historian Erwin Panofsky claimed that the theology of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite influenced the architectural style of the abbey of St. Denis, though later scholars have argued against such a simplistic link between philosophy and architectural form.

Around the same time Saint Gregory of Nyssa and later Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite were developing a " theology of light " which then influenced Byzantine meditative and mystical traditions such as the Tabor light and theoria.

The concept of tutelary angels and their hierarchy was extensively developed in Christianity in the 5th century by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.

* Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Opera, Basle 1571

Returning to Constantinople, Barlaam worked on commentaries on Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite under the patronage of John VI Kantakouzenos.

His work, through Augustine of Hippo, the Cappadocian Fathers, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and several subsequent Christian and Muslim thinkers, has greatly influenced Western and Near-Eastern thought.

** Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite ( 5th century ), name claimed by a pseudonymous writer, identified by some with Georgian theologian Peter the Iberian ( 411 – 491 ), author of Corpus Areopagiticum

Similar duplicates include Dionysius the Areopagite, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Dionysius Petavius.

He commented also the works of Boethius, Peter Lombard, John Climacus, as well as those of, or attributed to, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.

For much of the twentieth century it was formally known as the Chronicle of Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel Mahre, but is now usually referred to as the Chronicle of Zuqnin or the Zuqnin Chronicle.

The legend is based on a claim made by Pseudo-Dionysius in a letter addressed to Polycarp: " What have you to say about the solar eclipse which occurred when the Savior was put on the cross?

An important source of Procline ideas was through the Pseudo-Dionysius.

As a student of Pseudo-Dionysius, Maximus was one of many Christian theologians who preserved and interpreted the earlier Neo-Platonic philosophy, including the thought of such figures as Plotinus and Proclus.

The most influential Christian angelic hierarchy was that put forward by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the 4th or 5th century in his book De Coelesti Hierarchia ( The Celestial Hierarchy ).

In the ninth century, John Scotus Erigena, who was largely influenced by Neo-Platonism, transmitted through the works of the Pseudo-Dionysius, contributed to bring into clearer relief the analogical character of predication ( De Divinâ Naturâ, Lib.

( Pseudo-Dionysius of Tell-Mahre says 677 ; but Athanasius was patriarch only 684-687.

However, Pseudo-Dionysius adopted the earlier Dionysius as a pseudonym and literary device and thus he did not in fact know the original Hierotheos and the description of Hierotheos and his works that Pseudo Dionysius supplied was either purely fictional or a veiled tribute to a fifth century contemporary of Pseudo-Dionysius.

According to Pseudo-Dionysius ( On the Divine Names, 3: 2 ), Hierotheos was an accomplished hymnographer:

The true founder of a distinctively Byzantine mysticism was Maximus the Confessor ( 7th century ), who deepened the tradition of Christian Neoplatonism, as found in the Pseudo-Dionysius, with the resources of Orthodox Christology.

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite's ranking of angels ), so too does Christian culture conceive of angels in orders of archangels, seraphim, and cherubim, among others.

The Divine Names, the classic treatise by Pseudo-Dionysius, defines the scope of traditional understandings in Western traditions such as Hellenic, Christian, Jewish and Islamic theology on the nature and significance of the names of God.

Uriel is listed as the fourth angel in Christian Gnostics ( under the name Phanuel ), by Gregory the Great, and in the angelology of Pseudo-Dionysius.

The Cloud of Unknowing draws on the mystical tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Christian Neoplatonism, which focuses on the via negativa road to discovering God as a pure entity, beyond any capacity of mental conception and so without any definitive image or form.

Although an admirer of Aristotle and Aquinas, he is neither an Aristotelian nor a Thomist in the usual sense of the words, but seems inclined rather to the Christian Platonism of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, St. Augustine, and St. Bonaventure.

The 5th century Christian writer Pseudo-Dionysius, following Philo, interprets that " Some people gave to the ascetics the name ' Therapeutae ' or servants while some others gave them the name monks ".

The Pseudo-Dionysius interprets Philo's group as a highly organized Christian ascetic order, and the meaning of the name " Therapeutae " as " servants ".

The 9th century saw the development of mystical theology through the introduction of the works of sixth-century theologian Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, such as On Mystical Theology.