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The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite, Volume 1 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite is an important and influential Christian author who wrote in the 5th or 6th century. Even though it is now recognized that the attribution of these works to the Dionysius mentioned in Acts 17:34 is false, they’re still incredibly important for the history of Christian doctrine due to their influence on Eastern and Medieval Christianity and the Christian...

indicate an original thinker moulding the Greek language to a newly acquired faith. There are two words, “Agnosia” and “Divine Gloom,” which illustrate a principle running through these writings,—that the negative of abstraction denotes the superlative positive. “Divine Gloom” is the darkness from excessive light; “Agnosia” is neither ignorance nor knowledge intensified: but a supra-knowledge of Him, Who is above all things known. It is “the most Divine knowledge of Almighty God, within the union
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