AGNŌSIA: The Apophatic Experience of God in Dionysius the Areopagite
AGNŌSIA: The Apophatic Experience of God in Dionysius the Areopagite

Summary/Abstract: The mystical union with God is accomplished at the moment when the Intellectseparates from itself, by entering into the Divine Darkness. This ecstasy of theIntellect and this accession to God are the ones who allow it to know God not byitself but by the union itself, to know God in God and through God. This is “themost divine knowledge” qua unknowing (cf. De divinis nominibus VII.3). There is adifference between ignorance (agnoia) and unknowing (agnōsia) which correspondsto the distinction between skotos (obscurity qua deprivation of light) and gnophos(darkness qua superabundance of light).

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