According to Acts, Paul went to the Aeropagus in Athens to preach to the Greek philosophers who apparently just sort of hung out there talking shit all day. He conveniently found a placard to an unknown god to illustrate the main point that he wanted to make to them about how the God that he worshipped was beyond their fancy Greek philosophical knowledge. They were mostly true to their sophistic reputations, but they at least condescended to converse with him before rejecting his Gospel, especially the bit about the resurrection of the dead. However, there were a couple of standouts who believed him and joined him, Damaris and Dionysius. Dionysius the Aeropagite would have his name ripped off but nonetheless honored by the Pseudo-Dionysius 500 years later. Pseudo-Dionysius is widely regarded as the founding figure of Christian Mysticism. For whatever reason he borrowed Dionysius's name, the anonymous writer shared a strong affinity with Dionysius for the unknowability of God. Jean-Luc Marion has outlined how this unknowable God is properly represented in the Icon, which is as the invisible made visible without reducing invisibility, or reducing unknowability. When the invisible appears from elsewhere, it is the sort of "Saturated Phenomenon" that Marion called "Revelation," but how does one stay true this sort of incomprehensible event, in which the unknowable makes itself know "as" an irreducible mystery?

Baddass vibes mixed by James Reeves of Midnight Radio: jamesreeves.co