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Subjects
Angels, Christianity, History, Theology, Anges, Christianisme, Théologie, Histoire, RELIGION, Christian Theology, Systematic, General, Early church
People
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Times
Early church, ca. 30-600

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Pseudo-Dionysius As Polemicist: The Development and Purpose of the Angelic Hierarchy in Sixth Century Syria
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
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2016, Taylor & Francis Group
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Pseudo-Dionysius As Polemicist: The Development and Purpose of the Angelic Hierarchy in Sixth Century Syria
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
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Pseudo-Dionysius As Polemicist: The Development and Purpose of the Angelic Hierarchy in Sixth Century Syria
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
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Pseudo-Dionysius As Polemicist: The Development and Purpose of the Angelic Hierarchy in Sixth Century Syria
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Pseudo-Dionysius as Polemicist: The Development and Purpose of the Angelic Hierarchy in 6th Century Syria (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies)
February 28, 2008, Ashgate Pub Co, Ashgate
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Table of Contents

Christian and non-Christian sources
Clement of Alexandria
Gregory of Nyssa
Gnosticism
Syrian Christianity
Non-Christian sources
Jewish sources
Neoplatonism
Hermeticism
The Mandaeans/Sabians
Alchemy and magic
The angelic hierarchy
Jewish angelology
The Chaldaean oracles and other pagan sources
Syrian angelologies
The purpose of the Dionysian hierarchy
The functions of Dionysius' angels
The unknowability of God
The cloud of unknowing and the dazzling darkness
Development in the Jewish tradition
Development in the Christian tradition
Development in pagan traditions
Ps-dionysius treatment of the theme
The need for intermediaries
Christology
Salvation
The monophysite connection
Severus of Antioch
Severus and the monophysite party
Severus and the origins of the Dionysian corpus
Other significant monophysites
John of Tella
John Bar Aphthonia
Peter of Reshaina
Zacharias of Mitylene
Paul of Callinicum
Sergius of Reshaina (d. 536 A.D.)
Issues of authority and leadership
The need for secrecy
Ascetics and mystics
Summa or polemic?
Summa his claim
Polemic an alternative suggestion
His opponents
Issues of authority
Mysticism for or against
Dionysius use of the word Imneøn
Heresies and the unity of the church
Authorship of the Dionysian Corpus
Was Dionysius an origenist?
Sergius of Reshaina
Significance of the Dionysian Corpus
Dionysius purpose and method
Relevance for spirituality today.

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Aldershot, Hants, England, Burlington, VT
Series
Ashgate new critical thinking in religion, theology and biblical studies

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Dewey Decimal Class
230/.14092
Library of Congress
BR65.D66 A78 2007

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

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OL17960829M
ISBN 13
9780754662587
LCCN
2007021337
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2618577

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