{"product_id":"the-wisdom-of-pseudo-dionysius-silence-symbol-and-the-names-of-the-unnameable-9798199262712","title":"The Wisdom of Pseudo-Dionysius: Silence, Symbol, and the Names of the Unnameable","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sapientia Mundi Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Mysticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor more than fifteen centuries, an anonymous Syrian monk has been teaching Christians how to speak about a God beyond all speech.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting under the borrowed name of an Athenian convert to Paul, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite produced one of the most consequential bodies of theology in late antiquity: four short treatises and ten letters that fused the philosophical rigor of late Neoplatonism with the radiant grammar of Christian revelation. From Maximus the Confessor in the seventh century to John of the Cross in the sixteenth, every major mystical writer in the Christian East and West drank from this strange, anonymous spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wisdom of Pseudo-Dionysius: Silence, Symbol, and the Names of the Unnameable\u003c\/i\u003e traces the contours of his thought with patience and precision, showing how the Corpus Areopagiticum continues to shape Christian contemplation today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside, you will discover: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the borrowed name of an apostolic convert became a piece of theology in itself\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe double rhythm of affirmation and negation that drives all theological speech\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe doctrine of dissimilar similitudes, by which strange biblical images become safer than dignified ones\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe luminous darkness of the Mystical Theology and the ascent of Moses on Sinai\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe graded transmission of divine light through the angelic and ecclesiastical hierarchies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe long afterlife of the corpus from Maximus and Eriugena to Eckhart, Aquinas, and the Spanish Carmelites\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the contemplative cadence its subject demands, the book is itself an exercise in the discipline it describes. It follows the master of unsaying through the cataphatic survey of the divine names, into the apophatic ascent, outward through the cosmic and ecclesial hierarchies, and at last into the silence at the end of all speech.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers seeking a contemplative theology that can hold both rigor and reverence, this volume opens a doorway into one of the deepest currents in the Christian intellectual tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889710022807,"sku":"9798199262712","price":1136.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199262712.webp?v=1781177435","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-wisdom-of-pseudo-dionysius-silence-symbol-and-the-names-of-the-unnameable-9798199262712","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}