SymposIA

On Saturday, October 12, 2024, we held our third annual Dionysius Circle Symposium, focused on St. Dionysius the Areopagite and St. Maximus the Confessor.

Presenters included Vladimir Cvetković, Hanna J. Lucas, Travis Dumsday, Jonathan Bieler, and Hans Boersma. Commentators were Dominic V. Cassella, Fr. Andrew Summerson, Luke Togni, and Derek King.

The event featured reflections on divine hiddenness, metaphysics, participation, and Dionysian influence on Maximus and Aquinas. A volume based on the symposium will be published with Word on Fire’s New Ressourcement series.

On Saturday, October 7, 2023, we held our second annual Dionysius Circle Symposium, focused on Thomas Aquinas’ An Exposition of the Divine Names, The Book of Blessed Dionysius.

The proceedings were published in the European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas. Read the articles here:

• Conor Stark, "Participationes tripliciter considerari possunt”: The Absolute Notion of Esse in Aquinas’s Commentary on the Divine Names
   
• Patrick Zoll, Platonic Participation without Platonic Forms: Thomas Aquinas on the Key Insight of Dionysius’s De divinis nominibus
   
• Mark K. Spencer, Beauty and Divine Processions: Synthesizing Dionysius, Thomas Aquinas, and their Interpretive Traditions
   

On Saturday October 8th, 2022, we held our inaugural symposium. Please click here to watch recordings of the lectures.

The proceedings were published in https://analogiajournal.com/.