The Authorship of the Pseudo-Dionysian Corpus: A Deliberate Forgery or Clever Literary Ploy? by Vladimir Kharlamov (review)

• Autores: Wiebke-Marie Stock
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 4, 2020, págs. 667-669
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Kharlamov claims that the choice of Dionysius of the Areopagus as the author “is quite a risky plan if the actual author wanted to present the corpus as an original production,” that it “could be easily established as forgery,” and that the choice of an author who did not leave a written work would have been “more disadvantageous” (48). What do we learn about the CD in this reading? C. Stang (Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012]) and C. Schäfer (“The Anonymous Naming of Names: Pseudonymity and Philosophical Program in Dionysius the Areopagite,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 82.4 [2008]: 561–80), who focus on Paul, develop some interesting facets of the CD. A female author, perhaps, would be less interested in building predominantly male hierarchies and attempting to squeeze the whole universe into a coherent system.