Dionysius the areopagite biography of william

Christian theologian

Not to be confused with Dionysius the Areopagite.

"Pseudo-Dionysius" redirects here. For the chronicle once attributed to Dionysius Telmaharoyo, see Zuqnin Chronicle.

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (or Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite) was a Greek^[1] author, Christian theologian and Neoplatonicphilosopher of the late 5th to early 6th century, who wrote a set of works known as the Corpus Areopagiticum or Corpus Dionysiacum.

Through his writing in Mystical Theology, he has been identified as the "progenitor of apophatic or negative theology."^[2]

The author pseudepigraphically identifies himself in the corpus as "Dionysios", portraying himself as Dionysius the Areopagite, the Athenian convert of Paul the Apostle mentioned in Acts 17:34.^{[3][4][note 1]}

Historic confusions

In the early sixth century, a series of writings of a mystical nature, employing Neoplatonic