Bibliography

Text and Translations

Patrologia Graeca, ed. J. P. Migne, Paris 185766, v. 34. Corpus Dionysiacum I (DN), ed. B. R. Suchla, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1990. Corpus Dionysiacum II (CH, EH, MT, Letters), eds. G. Heil and A. M. Ritter, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1991. Dionysius the Areopagite: The Divine Names and Mystical Theology, trans. C. E. Rolt, London: Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, 1920. Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works, trans. C. Luibheid and P. Rorem, London: Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 1987. Pseudo-Denys lAropagite. Oeuvres compltes. Traduction, prface et note , Paris: Aubier, 1980. Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names and Mystical Theology , trans. J. Jones, Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 1980. Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita. Die Namen Gottes , trans. B. R. Suchla, Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1988. Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita. Uber die himmlische Hierarchie. Uber die Kirchliche Hierarchie, trans. G. Heil, Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1986. Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita. Uber die mystische Theologie und Briefe , Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1994 The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite, trans. J. Parker, London: Parker, 1897.
Patristic and medieval commentaries

John of Scythopolis et al. (c. 530) Scholia, ed. P. Corderius, Patrologia Cursus Completus, Series Graeca 4, Paris: Migne 185791. (Annotations from the Patristic period) Johannes Scottus Eriugena (c. 86070) Expositiones in Ierarchiam coelestem (Commentaries on CH), ed. J. Barbet, Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis 31, Turnhout: Brepols, 1975. Hugh of St. Victor (c.122030) Commentariorum in Hierarchiam coelestem Sancti Dionysii Areopagitae (Commentary on CH), Patrologia Cursus Completus, Series Latinus 175, Paris: Migne, 184480. Gallus, Thomas (1242) Thomas Gallus: Grand commentaire sur la Thologie Mystique (Commentary on MT), ed. G. Thery, Paris: Haloua, 1934. Grosseteste, Robert (c. 12403) Mystical Theology: The Glosses by Thomas Gallus and the Commentary of Robert Grosseteste on De Mystica Theologia, ed. J. McEvoy, Leuven: Peeters, 2003.

Albert the Great (c. 125060) Super Dionysium de divinis nominibus (Commentary on DN), ed. P. Simon in Opera omnia, vol. 37, part 1, Munster: Aschendorff, 1972. Aquinas, Thomas (c. 12658) In librum beati Dionysii De divinis nominibus expositio (Commentary on DN), ed. C. Pera, Turin: Marietti, 1950. Chevallier, P. (ed.) (193750) Dionysiaca: Receuil donnant lensemble des traditions latines des ouvrages attribus au Denys de lAropagrite, Bruges: Descle de Brouwer, 2 vols: repr. Stuttgart, 1989 (with translations by Hilduin, Eriugena, John Sarracenus, Grosseteste, Ficino and others.)
Secondary sources

de Andia, Y. (1996) Lunion Dieu chez Denys lAropagite, Leiden: E. J. Brill. Beggiani, S. J. Theology at the Service of Mysticism: Method in PseudoDionysius, Theolgical Studies 57, 201223 Brons, B. (1976) Gott und die Seienden. Untersuchungen zum Verhaltnis von neuplatonischer Metaphysik and christlicher Tradition bei Dionysius Areopagita (God and Beings: An Examination of the Relationship between Neoplatonist Metaphysics and Christian Tradition in Dionysius the Areopagite), Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Corrigan, K. (1996) Solitary mysticism in Plotinus, Proclus, Gregory of Nyssa, and Pseudo-Dionysius, The Journal of Religion, 2842. . (2004) Reading Plotinus: A Practical Introduction to Neoplatonism , Indiana: Purdue University Press Finan, T. and Twomey, V. (eds) (1992) The Relationship Between Neoplatonism and Christianity, Dublin. Gersh, S. (1978) From Iamblichus to Eriugena: An Investigation of the Prehistory and Evolution of the Pseudo-Dionysian Tradition , Leiden: Brill. Harrington, L. M. (2004) A Thirteenth-Century Textbook of Mystical Theology at the University of Paris, Leuven: Peeters. . (2004) Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism, New York: Palgrave. Hathaway, R. (1969) Hierarchy and the Definition of Order in the Letters of Pseudo-Dionysius, The Hague. Koch, J. (19567) Augustinischer und Dionysischer Neuplatonismus und das Mittelalter (Augustinian and Dionysian Neoplatonism in the Middle Ages), Kantstudien 48: 11733; repr. in W. Beierwaltes, Platonismus in der Philosophie des Mittelalters, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1969, 31742. Louth, A. (1989) Denys, the Areopagite, Wilton, CT: Morehouse-Barlow McGinn, B., (1994) The Foundations of Mysticism. Origins to the Fifth Century, New York: Crossroads, 15782. (and also see appendixes)

ODaly, G. (1981) Dionysius Areopagita, Theologische Realenzyklopadie 8: 77280 Perl, E. D. (2008) Theophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite, Albany: SUNY. ORourke, F. (1992) Pseudo-Dionysius and the Metaphysics of Aquinas , Leiden: Brill. Roques, R. (1954) Lunivers Dionysien. Stucture hierarchique du monde selon le Pseudo-Denys (The Dionysian Universe: The Hierarchical Structure of the World According to Pseudo-Dionysius), Paris: Aubier; repr. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1983. Roques, R. et al. (1954) Denys lAreopagite (le Pseudo-), Dictionnaire de spiritualite ascetique et mystique doctrine et histoire , vol. 3, 244429. Rorem, P. (1993) Pseudo-Dionysius: A Commentary on the Texts and an Introduction to their Influence, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sheldon-Williams, I. P. (1970) The Pseudo-Dionysius, in A. H. Armstong (ed.) The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Turner, Denys (1995) The Darkness of God. Negativity in Christian Mysticism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1949. Vanneste, J. (1959) Le mystre de Dieu, Brussels: Descle de Brouwer. Vlker, W. (1958) Kontemplation und Ekstase bei Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita, Wiesbaden. Wallis, R. T. (1972) Neoplatonism, 2nd edition with a foreward and bibliography by Lloyd P. Gerson (1995) London, UK; Indianapolis, Indiana, USA: Duckworth, Hackett.
Suggestions for further reading
On the Celestial Hierarchy

Battisti, G. S. (1983) Strutture e figure retoriche nel de Caelesti Hierarchia dello Pseudo-Dionigi: Un mezzo di espressione dell ontologia Neoplatonica, Archivio di Filosofia 51: 293319. Duclow, D. F. (1994) Isaiah meets the seraph: Breaking ranks in Dionysius and Eriugena? Eriugena: East and West, Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 23352. Lilla, S. (1986) Note sulla Gerarchia Celeste dello Ps. Dionigi lAreopagita, Augustinianum 26: 51973. Sheldon-Williams, I. P. (1972) Henads and Angels: Proclus and the Pseudo-Dionysius, Studia Patristica 11: 6571.
Dionysian Sources: Neoplatonic or Christian?

Golitzin, A. (1993) The Mysticism of Dionysius Areopagita: Platonist or Christian? Mystics Quarterly 19: 98114. Louth, A. (1986) Pagan Theurgy and Christian Sacramentalism in Denys the Areopagite, Journal of Theological Studies 37: 4328. Rist, J. (1992) Pseudo-Dionysius, Neoplatonism and the Weakness of the Soul, in H. J. Van Westra (ed.) From Athens to Chartres: Neoplatonism and Medieval Thought,Leiden: E. J. Brill. Saffrey H. D. (1982) New Objective Links between the Pseudo-Dionysius and Proclus, in D. J. OMeara (ed.) Neoplatonism and Christian Thought, Norfolk, VA: International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, 6574. Shaw, G. (1999) Neoplatonic Theurgy and Dionysius the Areopagite, Journal of Early Christian Studies 7: 57399.
On the Divine Names

Corsini, E. (1962) Il trattato De divinis nominibus dello Pseudo-Dionigi e i commenti neoplatonici al Parmenide, Torino. Janowitz, N. (1991) Theories of Divine Names in Origen and PseudoDionysius, History of Religions, 30 May: 359372. Suchla, B. R. (1996) Wahrheit ber jeder Wahrheit: Zur philosophischen Absicht der Schrift De Divinis Nominibus des Dionysius Areopagita, Theologische Quartalschrift 176: 20517.
Ecclesiastical Hierarchy

Golitzin, A. (1994) Et Introibo ad Altare Dei, Thessalonica: Patriarchikon Idruma Paterikon Meleton; George Dedousis. Harrington, L. M. (2004) Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism, New York: Palgrave. Perl, E. (1994) Hierarchy and Participation in Dionysius the Areopagite and Greek Neoplatonism, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 68: 1530. Wesche, P. (1989) Christological Doctrine and Liturgical Interpretation in Pseudo-Dionysius, St. Vladimirs Theological Quarterly 33: 5373.
Influence on Medieval Philosophy

de Andia, Y. (1997) Denys laropagite et sa postrit en Orient et en Occident, Paris: Institut dtudes Augustiniennes. Boiadjiev, T.; Kapriev, G.; Speer, A. eds. (2000) Die Dionysius-Rezeption im Mittelalter, Turnhout: Brepols. Dondaine, H. F. (1953) Le corpus dionysien de luniversit de Paris au XIIIe sicle, Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura.

Harrington, L. M. (2004) A Thirteenth-Century Textbook of Mystical Theology at the University of Paris, Leuven: Peeters. Rorem, P. and Lamoreaux, J. (1998) John of Scythopolis and the Dionysian Corpus: Annotating the Areopagite, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Language

Bader, G. (1989) Gott nennen: Von Gtternamen zu gttlichen Namen: Zur Vorgeschichte der Lehre von den gttlichen Eigenschaften, Zeitschrift fr Theologie und Kirche 86: 30654. Breton, S. (1994) Superlatif et ngation: Comment dire la Transcendance? Revue des sciences philosophiques et thologiques 78: 193202. Gersh, S. (1978) From Iamblichus to Eriugena: An Investigation of the Prehistory and Evolution of the Pseudo-Dionysian Tradition , Leiden: Brill. Scazzoso, P. (1967) Ricerche sulla Struttura del Linguaggio dello PseudoDionigi Areopagita, Milan: Societ Editrice Vita e Pensiero. Turner, Denys (1995) The Darkness of God. Negativity in Christian Mysticism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1949.
Love

Osborne, C. (1994) Eros Unveiled, Oxford: Clarendon. Rist, J. (1966) A Note on Eros and Agape in the PseudoDionysius, Vigiliae christianae 20: 235-43. de Vogel, C. J. (1981) Greek Cosmic Love and the Christian Love of God, Vigiliae christianae 35: 5784.
Mystical Theology

Carabine, D. (1995) The Unknown God: Negative Theology in the Platonic Tradition: Plato to Eriugena, Louvain: Peeters. Lossky, V. (1939) La thologie ngative dans la doctrine de Denys lAropagite, Revue des sciences philosophiques et thologiques 28: 20421. Rist, J. (1964) Mysticism and Transcendence in Later Neoplatonism, Hermes 92: 21325. Williams, J. The Apophatic Theology of Dionysius the PseudoAreopagite, Downside Review 117:157-172.
Postmodern Dionysians

Derrida, J. (1987) Comment ne pas parler: Dngations, Psych: Inventions de lautre, Galile: 58495. Marion, J.-L. (1977) Lidole et la distance, Paris: Editions Bernard Grasset.

Marion, J.-L. (1982) Dieu sans ltre: Hors-texte, Paris: Librairie Arthme Fayard.
Symbolic Theology

Roques, R. (1957) Symbolisme et theologie negative chez le PseudoDenys, Bulletin de lassociation Guillaume Bud. Rorem, P. (1984) Biblical and Liturgical Symbols within the PseudoDionysian Synthesis, Toronto. Schmemann, A. (1981) Symbols and Symbolism in the Orthodox Liturgy, Orthodox Theology and Diakonia, Brookline, Massachusetts: Hellenic College Press.

Other Internet Resources

Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite, The Catholic Encyclopedia Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, by Mark Lamarre in The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy