ARTICOLI / 1 / Ernesto Mainoldi /
Ecstasy and deification in Dionysian mystical and hierarchical theology
The theme of ecstasy in Pseudo-Dionysius is developed under the gnoseological perspective of transcendence over the realm of the intellect and constitutes a step in the path of ascent to the summit of mystical theology, which is unknowledge. In the work of Dionysius, this theme finds contiguity with another basic aspect of Dionysian thought, which was developed later, namely the hierarchical dynamic of deification, whose elaboration leads Dionysius’ mystical conception to be fully contextualized, beyond the gnoseological sphere, in the domain of sacramental communion and symbolic theology.
