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Mystical theology

Knowledge of God through union rather than reasoning; also the title of Dionysius’s treatise.

Christian mysticism

Dionysius’s short Mystical Theology teaches Timothy to leave behind senses and intellect and be raised to the ray of divine darkness. In the Middle Ages, mystical theology came to mean the experiential knowledge of God through love, distinct from scholastic theology. Jean Gerson wrote on it in these terms.