Monthly Archives: February 2018

Introduction to Dionysius the Areopagite by James Cowan I first encountered the name of Dionysius the Areopagite when I purchased a second-hand copy of his Celestial Hierarchies in 1971. Reading his work changed my life forever.  Not because his thought was comprehensible (which it wasn’t) but because he intimated a way of viewing reality that suggested [...]

Late medieval Europe was blessed with a number of important religious thinkers who enlivened the austere Aristotlism of past scholastic writers. Men such as Meister Eckhart, John Tauler, and mystics such as Julian of Norwich and Walter Hilton helped to leaven a Christianity that was in danger of becoming reduced to an arid analysis of [...]