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Divine Names

Dionysius the Areopagite’s treatise on the names of God and the way beyond them.

Christian mysticism

The Divine Names, a work of the late fifth or early sixth century attributed to Dionysius, Paul’s convert, examines the names scripture gives God, Good, Being, Life, Wisdom, as ways divine goodness goes forth into creation, while insisting that God transcends them all. With the Mystical Theology it founded Christian apophaticism.