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Areopagite

noun
1.
A member of the council of the Areopagus.





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... The three Persons of the Trinity have impressed their image upon the creatures, yet it is only their "nothingness" that keeps them separate creatures. Most of this comes from the Neoplatonists, and much of it through the pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, a Platonising Christian of the fifth century, whose writings were believed in the Middle Ages to proceed from St Paul's Athenian convert. It would, however, be easy to find parallels in St Augustine's writings to most of the phases quoted in ...
— Light, Life, and Love • W. R. Inge


Words linked to "Areopagite" :   fellow member, Areopagus, member


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