Misrepresenting Neoplatonism in Contemporary Christian Dionysian Polemic: Eriugena and Nicholas of Cusa versus Vladimir Lossky and Jean-Luc Marion.

The article focuses on Neoplatonism in Contemporary Christian Dionysian Polemic. It discusses the comparison between the receptions of Dionysius in relation to non-Christian philosophy during the Latin Middle Ages and the twentieth-century Christian thought. It states that the medieval philosophers including Eriugena, Thomas Aquinas, and Nicholas of Cusa as a rule refuse to divide religion from philosophy. Hence, it notes that the medieval philosophers see no need to set Dionysius in opposition to non-Christian philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, and Proclus. It mentions that Vladimir Lossky and Jean-Luc Marion celebrates Dionysius in opposition to the non-Christian Neoplatonists.