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Dionysius the Areopagite exercised immense influence on medieval theology. This study considers various ways in which his doctrine of union with God in darkness marked the early Albert the Great and his student Thomas Aquinas. The Mystery of Union with God considers a broad range of themes in the early Albert's corpus and in Thomas that underlie their mystical theologies and may bear traces of Dionysian influence. These themes include the divine missions, anthropology, the virtues of faith and charity, primary and secondary causality, divine naming, and eschatology. The heart of this work offers detailed exegesis of key union passages in Albert's commentaries on Dionysius, Thomas's Commentary on the Divine Names, and the Summa Theologiae questions on Spirit's gifts of understanding and wisdom.

ISBN-13: 9780813229157

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press

Publication Date: 06-10-2016

Pages: 544

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.20(d)

Series: Thomistic Ressourcement

Bernhard Blankenhorn, OP is associate professor of theology at the Ponitifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Abbreviations ix

Introduction xi

Part 1 Dionysius and his Early Interpreters On Union With God

1 Dionysius on Union with God 3

2 Key Developments in the Dionysian Tradition up to Albert the Great 30

Part 2 Albert On Dionysian Union With God

3 Mystical Union and Its Doctrinal Pillars in the Early Albert 49

4 Albert's Dionysian Commentaries on Union with God 122

Part 3 Thomas On Dionysian Union With God

5 Thomas's Anthropological Synthesis of Aristotle, Augustine, and Dionysius 215

6 Grace in Thomas 249

7 Divine Naming in Thomas 296

8 Dionysian Union in Thomas 317

General Conclusion 443

Bibliography 469

Index of Names 497

Subject Index 502