Author:Dionysius the Areopagite

For authors with similar names, see Author:Dionysius.

Dionysius the Areopagite
(1st century)

Dionysius the Areopagite

Works

Attributed works

In the early 6th century, a series of famous writings of a mystical nature, employing Neoplatonic language to elucidate Christian theological and mystical ideas, was ascribed to the Areopagite. They have long been recognized as pseudepigrapha, and their author is now called "Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite".

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Extant works

• Divine Names (Περὶ θείων ὀνομάτων)
• Mystical Theology (Περὶ μυστικῆς θεολογίας)
• Celestial Hierarchy (Περὶ τῆς οὐρανίου ἱεραρχίας)
• Ecclesiastical Hierarchy (Περὶ τῆς ἐκκλησιαστικῆς ἱεραρχίας)
• Ten letters

Collected works

• The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite, in 2 vols., translated by John Parker (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

Works about St Dionysius

• "Dionysius Areopagiticus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Dionysius, Pseudo-Areopagita," in Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century, (ed.) by Henry Wace and William C. Piercy, London: John Murray (1911)