Format:
1 Online-Ressource (360 p)
ISBN:
9780879072506
Series Statement:
Cistercian Studies v.250
Content:
Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Author's Note -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. A Controversial Figure: A Brief Look at Dionysius' Ecclesial and Scholarly Reception -- Excursus: A Word on Conspiracy Theories -- 2. The Corpus Dionysiacum: Christian Mysticism and Monastic Mystagogy -- Chapter 1: The Christian Mysticism of Dionysius Areopagita -- 1. Epistle X, "To the Apostle John at Patmos," as an Introduction to the Corpus Dionysiacum: A Response to Apocalyptic Literature and Visionary Practices Directed to a Monastic Audience -- 2. The Celestial Hierarchy: Coordination between Heaven, the Liturgy, and the Soul-A Theme from the Ascetical Literature of Early Syrian Christianity -- 3. The "Architecture" of the Church at Worship in the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy: "Bracketing" All of Christian Life -- 4. The Divine Names: Notes of Eschatological Anticipation and "Spiritual Fatherhood" as Illustration of the Trinity -- 5. The Mystical Theology: Ascending the "Mountain of the Church" to Approach the Light of Christ, the Shekinah -- 6. Completing the Context of the Mystical Theology: Epistles I-V and Christ the "Sudden" -- 7. A Reply to the Critics: The Revealed "Pattern" of Public Worship and Private Prayer -- 8. A Closing Illustration: The Mosaic of the Transfiguration at Saint Catherine's, Sinai -- Chapter 2: The Mystery of God: Transcendence and Presence -- 1. Reciprocal Ecstasies: A Preface -- 2. The One and the Many in God: The Divine Differences -- 3. The Names: Notional Icons, Resonances of God as Providence -- 4. Summary -- Chapter 3: The Mystery of the Creature: Toward the Divine Likeness and Union -- Introduction -- 1. God the Creator -- 2. The Reason-Endowed Creature as the Mirror or Analog of God's Energies -- 3. -- 4. Summary -- Chapter 4: The Mystery of the Worlds: Hierarchy and the Hierarchies.
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9780879077600
Additional Edition:
9780879072506
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Print version Golitzin, Alexander Mystagogy : A Monastic Reading of Dionysius Areopagita Collegeville, MN : Liturgical Press,c2014 9780879072506
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English
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