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Negating Negation: Against the Apophatic Abandonment of the Dionysian Corpus (review)Theologische Review 6 493-494. 2016.
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The Problem of Paradigmatic Causality and Knowledge in Dionysius the Areopagite and His First CommentatorDissertation, Boston College. 2001.The Neoplatonic philosopher Proclus disagrees with his predecessor Plotinus on the degree to which human souls can liken themselves to the paradigms, the intellectual formal causes of the sensible world. Plotinus claims that a part of the soul is itself an intellect and not just a likeness of an intellect, while Proclus denies that the soul can ever be more than a likeness of intellect. ;This explicit conflict between Proclus and Plotinus repeats itself implicitly in the work of the author who c…Read more
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Creation and Natural Contemplation in Maximus the Confessor's Ambiguum X.19In Michael Treschow, Willemien Otten & Walter Hannam (eds.), Divine Creation in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Thought: Essays Presented to the Rev'd Dr. Robert D. Crouse. pp. 191-212. 2007.
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Religious PlatonismIn David Alan Warburton, Olav Hammer & L. B. Christensen (eds.), The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe, Routledge. pp. 263-277. 2013.
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Eriugena and the Neoplatonic traditionIn Adrian Guiu (ed.), A companion to John Scottus Eriugena, Brill. 2020.
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Dionysius the AreopagiteIn James R. Lewis & Olav Hammer (eds.), The Invention of Sacred Tradition, Cambridge University Press. pp. 241-257. 2007.
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