Dionysios Ps.-Areiopagites im heutigen Forschungsgespräch

Abstract

The intention of this paper is to overcome an alarming polarization within the actual academic debate on the writing of the unknown author of the Corpus Areopagiticum. It discusses five exemplary problems: a. unity and diversity in God; b. theurgy in Proklos and Ps.-Dionysios; c. Porphyry, Dionysios and the “anthropological Model” for the solution of the Christological problem; d. ambivalences within the Dionysian corpus; e. the intention of the author. In the introduction the paper also touches – very briefly, it is true – upon the question, if Peter the Iberian could have been the author of that corpus, as – independently from each other – E. Honigmann and S. Nutsubidze once proposed.