Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite Quotes on Knowledge

The corpus of writings attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite — On the Divine Names, The Mystical Theology, The Celestial Hierarchy, The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, and the Letters — was produced around the late fifth or early sixth century by an anonymous Christian Neoplatonist writing under the apostolic name. The framework supplies medieval Christian theology with its most influential analysis of the two complementary modes of theological knowledge: the cataphatic, which proceeds by affirming of God the perfections found in creatures while recognizing their analogical character, and the apophatic, which proceeds by denying of God every creaturely category in order to approach the radically transcendent ground that surpasses both being and non-being.