Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: 'No Longer I'

A discussion on the recent publication "Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: 'No Longer I' " by Charles Stang, Associate Professor of Early Christian Thought. Discussants of the book were David Brakke, Joe R. Engle Chair in the History of Christianity and Professor of History at Ohio State, and Nicholas Watson, Professor of English at Harvard University.

[@jailtheology]

Great talk! Appreciate you posting it. Look forward to perusing the book. Peace to you all!

[@nickolaskaiser447]

I know I'm kinda randomly asking but do anybody know of a good site to watch new tv shows online ?

[@nuggetoftruth-ericking7489]

Intriguing apophatic Christian information. I teach theology online. I appreciate your talks.

[@DarkMoonDroid]

Good for you for letting your statement stand about P-D making Christianity make sense to you! He's important! The debate about the historicity of it all is boring af! How can we experience this text now? Now is new. Now is always new!

[@bernhardbernhardkelley-pat2861]

GREAT talk, many thanks.

[@frederickanderson1860]

4:46 the concept of the unknown God outside of his creation to become born from a woman is puzzling.

[@frederickanderson1860]

0:32 Dionysius influence still around plus Plotinus and proculus. They are not aware of the mystical from the theological, saint john of the cross the cloud of unknowing is a good example.

[@ALavin-en1kr]

From eleven years ago; still interesting. It is all about Consciousness; today’s ’hard problem’ for philosophy. The definition of God being: Consciousness; Existence; Bliss. A child is born who has this Cosmic Consciousness or Christ Consciousness as it is known. There have been many cases in the East where Avatars are born with this level of consciousness. It is likely a part of evolution; we hear a lot about physical evolution but there must be psychic evolution also. From human consciousness: awareness of body and environment to Cosmic Consciousness feeling one’s consciousness as within the whole cosmos. In the West it is seen as a one time event in Christ. In the East, Krishna and others have reached this level of consciousness through many incarnations of right living to the ultimate truth; that all is One.

[@tripp8833]

weird they are just discussing the book. I thought this was about Dionysus

[@frederickanderson1860]

29:32 what about the soul and spirit dichotomy.

[@frederickanderson1860]

19:35 all the fullness of the Godhead. Was in Christ bodily. So how you explain that is it both the father and the son and holy spirit. So how do we explain jesus humanity.

[@Cross0987]

Mmm I'll just find the the books from Dionysius. But thanks for trying!

[@betadryl]

Found it!

[@frederickanderson1860]

11:13 you can say same about the bible who are the original authors. Church father's are their proofs of authenticity of the canon, but again is it a excuse for the hierarchy of the Roman and other churches.

[@TheGuiltsOfUs]

christianity is certainly not an original religion. Dionysius - like others - simply stole the ideas of greater minds and combined them with the desert cult of yeshua, with a dash of the mystery cults tackled on after.

[@seon-gyoungadams2257]

Hahaha … May God bless you !

[@SauerkrautX]

Did you learn that in your gender studies course for $20k/semester?

[@JingleJangleJam]

@@SauerkrautX Congratulations, you are living proof of the claim made by some that the United States is trying to censor and control education and ban books it doesn't like. How does it feel to be in league with the likes of Goebbels? You are also living proof of the fact that anything somebody says which you don't like, even if it has nothing to do with gender theory or with ''critical race theory'', you call gender theory or critical race theory, if you wish to censor it from schools.

[@colmcille9669]

I used to believe those "facts" too. They don't hold water when you actually read the source materials and not just someone's ideas about them.

[@Christianity_and_Perennialism]

Caved in head take