UNITY IN DIVERSITY – ANTI-ORIGENISTIC EVIDENCE IN THE CORPUS AREOPAGITICUM
UNITY IN DIVERSITY – ANTI-ORIGENISTIC EVIDENCE IN THE CORPUS AREOPAGITICUM

Summary/Abstract: Corpus Dionysiacum’s allegiance to the Origenist camp is a new research track in the unceasing effort ofthe scholars to discover its mysterious author. This approach has already provoked a heated debatebetween its supporters and appellants, each party claiming to possess indisputable evidence on its side.Unfortunately, this is nothing unusual in our times to see Corpus Dionysiacum associated with the nonChristian philosophy or with heresies, although the Fathers of the Church have reiterated constantly theOrthodoxy of these pieces of writings. For a long time ago (since the Reformation) it has been suggestedthat ‘Dionysius the Areopagite’ is a pseudonym used with obscure aims to deceive the uninformedreaders, through an apostolic authority. The author was suspected of either covering elements from theNeoplatonic Tradition in his Corpus or of promoting a non-Chalcedonian Christology. The present articleevaluates the divine name of ‘peace’ as convincing evidence for the Christian view of the Corpus, aquasi-anti-Origenist attitude, to call it so

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