Florin Crîşmăreanu/ Corpus Areopagiticum dans l’interprétation de st. Thomas d’Aquin 157 META: RESEARCH IN HERMENEUTICS, PHENOMENOLOGY, AND PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY VOL. III, NO. 1 / JUNE 2011: 157-174, ISSN 2067-3655, www.metajournal.org Corpus Areopagiticum dans l’interprétation de saint Thomas d’Aquin ∗ Florin Crîşmăreanu Université « Al. I. Cuza » de Iasi Abstract Corpus Areopagiticum in the Interpretation of St. Thomas Aquinas In this article I intend to highlight a fundamental difference that I have seized between Dionysius interpreted by Thomas of Aquinas and the author of Corpus Areopagiticum. In the first stage, I will present the way in which Thomas understands Dionysius as a simple Aristotelian, then the confession of faith of saint Thomas regarding that particular Dionysius from The Acts of Apostles 17, 34, without, however, noticing the fact that Dionysius invokes the Holy Trinity in his texts, a dogma established only in the first Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325). However, the most obvious issue that radically separates the two thinkers (Dionysius and Thomas) is their way of understanding theology (θεολογία). Keywords: Dionysius the Areopagite, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotelianism, theology, Christology, divinity, knowledge I. Si le Corpus Areopagiticum s’était perdu, je pense qu’il aurait pu être facilement reconstruit à partir du Corpus Thomisticum. Car Denys l’Aréopagite a trouvé dans la personne de Thomas d’Aquin un lecteur privilégié, même un disciple, qui cite l’„obscure” l’Aréopagite 1701 fois 1 . Voulant excuser saint ∗ Acknowledgement: Cet article a été publié dans le cadre d’une période de recherche financée par le programme POSDRU/89/1.5/S/49944 („Developing the Innovation Capacity and Improving the Impact of Research through Post- doctoral Programmes”).