Dionysius(I)
- Writer
Saint Dionysius the Areopagite, as he is known, was an Athenian
Christian, converted by St. Paul. He was the first bishop of Athens and
an author of philosophical writings and treatises. There are ten
letters and four treatises, "The Celestial Hierarchy", "The
Ecclesiastical Hierarchy", "The Divine Names", "Mystical Theology"
written in Greek which have greatly influenced the development of
scholasticism, particularly through Saint Thomas Aquinas. The treatises
provided the medium for Western culture of the concepts of Neoplatonism
and of the theology of angels. He is commonly referred to as
"Pseudo-Dionysius" by scholars.