Notes Jotted in Stream-of-Consciousnessly-Aware re St. Denys

Q' 
uestions/Uncertainties/strangnesses in Dionysius Areopagite

^Eroos \/Platocitations > poem in preface to Mystical Theology ^ "darkness" ^ hints of tolerance of pagans ^ citation and knowledge ofBible <probability of access to a fine Greek library ^probable upper status (cf Everett Rogers) ^proximate to time of closing/outlawing Athens Plato School, gradual demise of Neoplationic education ^probable Plato and Plotinus and Proclus and Iamblicus and Damascius books (from ? library?) ^skirting problems with Monophysites Nestorians Chalcedonians ^strong persuasion (cf Gunter Bentele "Offentichliches-Vertraun. . .") as ? "propaganda"? ?what hints of the interpersonal transcendence (cf. Buber and Marcel)(maybe Hierotheus? Author of "Elements of Religion"~Proclus?Personae of Carpos/ Timotheus/Titus/John-Divine/Polycarp/Gaius as per ones with whom DA=familiar, by projection? ?potential phoniness in oooohing aaaaahing about the Infinite (unfelt ever by me!) ^drunkenness, intoxication, hangover =Trinity as mascarading Plotinine/Neoplatonic triads (being, proceeding, returning)? ?no apophasis exactly in "Ecclesiastical-Hierarchy" Q about how unlike modern Church sacramentals compared to now? Q regarding the "Ding an Sich" Hermeneutik of Ecstasy, lemme see where bodily he gets these magestic feelings, again from feeling Infinities? Q re motive for plagarism (outlawed, risking in Classical and Hellenistic and Patristic times-- IF CAUGHT ;-{ (maybe sensing need for "not innovating on Old Old Story of Jesus, Paul all")^ Using Rodney Stark's method, and the work of Bentele and Astrid Funck (seemingly experiential from Ostdeutschland Werbun/Propaganda) to ACCURATELY describe DA as tendentious and uttering from a persuasive-- more than objective-- frame of reference...

vernonlynn stephens, UofL sissy