Pseudo-Dionysius as polemicist
Subtitle: the development and purpose of the angelic hierarchy in 6th century Syria
By: Rosemary A. Arthur.
Series: Ashgate new critical thinking in religion, theology and biblical studies
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754662587
Subjects: Pseudo-Dionysius, -- the Areopagite; Angels -- Christianity; Theology -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600
Table of contents: title: Christian and non-Christian sources; title: Clement of Alexandria; title: Gregory of Nyssa; title: Gnosticism; title: Syrian Christianity; title: Non-Christian sources; title: Jewish sources; title: Neoplatonism; title: Hermeticism; title: The Mandaeans/Sabians; title: Alchemy and magic; title: The angelic hierarchy; title: Jewish angelology; title: The Chaldaean oracles and other pagan sources; title: Syrian angelologies; title: The purpose of the Dionysian hierarchy; title: The functions of Dionysius' angels; title: The unknowability of God; title: The cloud of unknowing and the dazzling darkness; title: Development in the Jewish tradition; title: Development in the Christian tradition; title: Development in pagan traditions; title: Ps-dionysius treatment of the theme; title: The need for intermediaries; title: Christology; title: Salvation; title: The monophysite connection; title: Severus of Antioch; title: Severus and the monophysite party; title: Severus and the origins of the Dionysian corpus; title: Other significant monophysites; title: John of Tella; title: John Bar Aphthonia; title: Peter of Reshaina; title: Zacharias of Mitylene; title: Paul of Callinicum; title: Sergius of Reshaina (d. 536 A.D.); title: Issues of authority and leadership; title: The need for secrecy; title: Ascetics and mystics; title: Summa or polemic?; title: Summa his claim; title: Polemic an alternative suggestion; title: His opponents; title: Issues of authority; title: Mysticism for or against; title: Dionysius use of the word Imneøn; title: Heresies and the unity of the church; title: Authorship of the Dionysian Corpus; title: Was Dionysius an origenist?; title: Sergius of Reshaina; title: Significance of the Dionysian Corpus; title: Dionysius purpose and method; title: Relevance for spirituality today.