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Luther’s critique of Dionysius Luther’s critique of Dionysius
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Luther and Dionysian Mysticism Luther and Dionysian Mysticism
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The Early Luther (1513–1518) The Early Luther (1513–1518)
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Luther’s Second Psalms Lectures (1519–1521) Luther’s Second Psalms Lectures (1519–1521)
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Luther and Mysticism Luther and Mysticism
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Notes Notes
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Bibliography Bibliography
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32 Luther on Dionysius
Get accessJohannes Zachhuber is Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the University of Oxford. A Senior Research Fellow of the British Academy in 2017–2018 and a Visiting Fellow at the Einstein Center Chronoi in 2018–2019, Zachhuber has two distinct research foci. The first is late antique philosophy and theology, along with its reception. The second is modern and postmodern theology, focusing on the nineteenth century and continental philosophy of religion. His most recent monograph is The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics (Oxford, 2020) and he is a co-editor on the forthcoming volume from Brill, The Philosophical and Theological Sources of the Byzantine Cosmologies.
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Published:18 March 2022
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Abstract
In his early writings Martin Luther shows some appreciation for the Mystical Theology of Dionysius, setting his desire for the personal knowledge of God against the arid quibbling of the scholastics; at the same time, he is always suspicious of any reliance on mystical knowledge at the expense of faith. His critique of Dionysius grows sharper in The Babylonish Captivity of the Church because the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy was being invoked by authors such as Johannes Eck to justify papal authority. The doubts of authenticity which were being raised by Valla and other Humanists reinfored Luther’s conviction that Dionysius was often an anomaly among the Church Fathers and more a Platonist than a Christian. Fanciful appeals to the Song of Songs by Eck and others, together with antinomian misuse of the Mystical Theology strengthened his opposition, but there was never a time when he read Dionysius without reservations.
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