Negating Negation: Against the Apophatic Abandonment of the Dionysian Corpus

The aim of this new work is to show that the “popular” interpretation and appropriation of the Dionysius corpus is mistaken: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite does not abandon all things to apophasis, and therefore cannot serve as a poster boy for our (post)modern projects in religious pluralism or anti-onto-theology. Quite the contrary, the Dionysian corpus gives reason for suspicion of such projects, especially when they relativize or metaphorize religious belief and practice in the name of absolute ineffability.