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- Dionysius The Areopagite
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- PREFACE
- I.--THE AUTHOR, AND HIS INFLUENCE IN THE LATER CHURCH
- II.--HIS LEADING IDEAS: THE NATURE OF THE GODHEAD IN ITSELF
- III.--THE RELATION OF THE GODHEAD TO CREATION
- IV.--THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
- V.--CONTEMPLATION
- VI.--DIONYSIUS AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY
- VII.--THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONTEMPLATION
- VIII.--THE SCRIPTURAL BASIS OF DIONYSIUS'S DOCTRINES
- IX.--CONCLUSION
- X.--BIBLIOGRAPHY
- This Treatise contains thirteen chapters. The following is a brief
- CHAPTER I Dionysius the Presbyter, to his fellow-Presbyter Timothy.
- CHAPTER II Concerning the Undifferencing and the Differentiation in Divinity, and the Nature of Divine Unification and Differentiation.
- CHAPTER III What is the power of Prayer? Also concerning the Blessed Hierotheus and concerning Reverence and the Writing of Divinity.
- CHAPTER IV Concerning |Good,| |Light,| |Beautiful,| |Desire,| |Ecstasy,| |Jealousy.| Also that Evil is neither existent nor Sprung from anything existent nor inherent in existent things.
- CHAPTER V Concerning |Existence| and also concerning |Exemplars.|
- CHAPTER VI Concerning |Life.|
- CHAPTER VII Concerning |Wisdom,| |Mind,| |Reason,| |Truth,| |Faith.|
- CHAPTER VIII Concerning |Power,| |Righteousness,| |Salvation,| |Redemption|; and also concerning |Inequality.|
- CHAPTER IX Concerning |Great,| |Small,| |Same,| |Different,| |Like,| |Unlike,| |Standing,| |Motion,| |Equality.|
- CHAPTER X Concerning |Omnipotent,| |Ancient of Days|; and also concerning |Eternity| and |Time.|
- CHAPTER XI Concerning |Peace| and what is meant by |Very Being| Itself, |Very Life,| |Very Power,| and similar phrases.
- CHAPTER XII Concerning |Holy of holies,| |King of kings,| |Lord of lords,| |God of gods.|
- CHAPTER XIII Concerning |Perfect| and |One.|
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II How it is necessary to be united with and render praise to Him Who is the cause of all and above all.
- CHAPTER III What are the affirmative expressions respecting God, and what are the negative.
- CHAPTER IV That He Who is the Pre-eminent Cause of everything sensibly perceived is not Himself any one of the things sensibly perceived.
- CHAPTER V That He Who is the Pre-eminent Cause of everything intelligibly perceived is not Himself any one of the things intelligibly perceived.
- THE INFLUENCE OF DIONYSIUS IN RELIGIOUS HISTORY
- INDEX TO TEXT
- INDEX TO NOTES AND INTRODUCTION