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Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite - "No Longer I" (Hardcover)
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Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite - "No Longer I" (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. This book examines the writings of
an early sixth-century Christian mystical theologian who wrote
under the name of a convert of the apostle Paul, Dionysius the
Areopagite. This 'Pseudo'-Dionysius is famous for articulating a
mystical theology in two parts: a sacramental and liturgical
mysticism embedded in the context of celestial and ecclesiastical
hierarchies, and an austere, contemplative regimen in which one
progressively negates the divine names in hopes of soliciting union
with the 'unknown God' or 'God beyond being.' Charles M. Stang
argues that the pseudonym and the influence of Paul together
constitute the best interpretive lens for understanding the Corpus
Dionysiacum [CD]. Stang demonstrates how Paul animates the entire
corpus, and shows that the influence of Paul illuminates such
central themes of the CD as hierarchy, theurgy, deification,
Christology, affirmation (kataphasis) and negation (apophasis),
dissimilar similarities, and unknowing. Most importantly, Paul
serves as a fulcrum for the expression of a new theological
anthropology, an 'apophatic anthropology.' Dionysius figures Paul
as the premier apostolic witness to this apophatic anthropology, as
the ecstatic lover of the divine who confesses to the rupture of
his self and the indwelling of the divine in Gal 2:20: 'it is no
longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.' Building on this
notion of apophatic anthropology, the book forwards an explanation
for why this sixth-century author chose to write under an apostolic
pseudonym. Stang argues that the very practice of pseudonymous
writing itself serves as an ecstatic devotional exercise whereby
the writer becomes split in two and thereby open to the indwelling
of the divine. Pseudonymity is on this interpretation integral and
internal to the aims of the wider mystical enterprise. Thus this
book aims to question the distinction between 'theory' and
'practice' by demonstrating that negative theology-often figured as
a speculative and rarefied theory regarding the transcendence of
God-is in fact best understood as a kind of asceticism, a
devotional practice aiming for the total transformation of the
Christian subject.
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