Abstract :
In his 2000 Religious Studies article ‘Ineffability’, John Hick calls uponthe Dionysian corpus to bear witness to the ‘transcategorality’ of God and therebycorroborate his comparative theology of pluralism. Hick’s Dionysius avows God’stranscendence of categories by negating God’s names, while at the same timemaintaining that such names are metaphorically useful means of uplifting humansto God. But herein reside three common misunderstandings of the Dionysiancorpus: (1) the divine names are mere metaphors; (2) the divine names are thereforenegated of God; and (3) the negation of divine names is the means by which humansreturn to and unite with God
