Translation of The Divine Names Whit Research introduction

“negative theology” is one of the theological approaches that conciders correct knowledge of God possible through negative terms. Pseudo Dionysius was a neoplatonic philosopher with strong mystical tendency to speak of God in negative terms. Although his individual identity is unknown, ten brief letters and four treatises are attributed to him that  the longest and the  most complicated one is “The Divine Names”. This was the first treatise in history of christian theology that discussed God’s conceptual names in scriptures, in the neoplatonic paradigm.  Dionysius claims that the dignity of Divine is the state of absolute darkness which is beyond human contemplation, so the negative language is a proper way to praise it. After that, there are divine names that emanate from divine world of Absolute to created world. The Good is the first procession of the Divine, followed by the Being and the Wisdom, therefore the negative language is the proper way to praise them because God is beyond being.