Mystery of Union with God: Dionysian Mysticism in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas BISAC-FIC009100 ISBN10: 1545522014

ISBN10: 1545522014

Author: Louis Gemminger

His father was the headmaster of the local gymnasium

ISBN13: 9781894400169

ISBN10: 1937918777

Mystery of Union with God: Dionysian Mysticism in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas BISAC-FIC009100 ISBN10: 1545522014Dionysius 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