정감적 디오니시오스 읽기의 맥락에서 살펴본 앎과 사랑의 관계: 위그 드 생-빅토르(Hugh of St. Victor)를 중심으로 (Knowledge and Love in Hugh of St. Victor Considered in the Context of Affective Dionysianism)

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초록

In this article, we have noticed Pseudo-Dionysius’s apophatic implication that, by unknowing or the negation of knowledge, we may approach God beyond our knowledge. The mystics of later generations such as Thomas Gallus, Bonaventure and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing have interpreted this negative implication by interpolating the affirmation that one may be united to the unknowable God through love.
We have called this tradition of reading Dionysius “affective Dionysianism”in consonance with the current scholarship.
Then, we have traced the origin of the affective interpretation of Dionysius back to Hugh of St. Victor in the twelfth century. In his Commentary on the Dionysian Celestial Hierarchy, Hugh makes clear that “love surpasses knowledge, and is greater than intelligence.” According to Paul Rorem, it is the Victorine master who has first introduced the priority of love into the reading of the Corpus Dionysiacum and laid a decisive foundation for the later development of affectivizing Dionysius.
In the next place, we have analyzed Hugh’s terminologies of love and examined in what sense “love surpasses knowledge etc.” Our findings can be summarized as follows: first, the Hugonian concept of love (dilectio/caritas) is characterized by its comprehensibility, subsuming both the affective and the cognitive motif within itself. Second, the priority of love is understood in terms of this comprehensibility and in the sense as well that love is capable of uniting the soul with God when knowledge is not in the final stage of spiritual ascent. Third, Hugh does not make any explicit statement that we cannot know God etc. Rather, he seemingly suggests that our cognitive power, liquefied by the fire of love, may penetrate into the innermost of our soul and make union the human lover with the divine beloved. In this point, Hugh differs from the anti-intellectualism of the later affective mystics.

영어초록

In this article, we have noticed Pseudo-Dionysius’s apophatic implication that, by unknowing or the negation of knowledge, we may approach God beyond our knowledge. The mystics of later generations such as Thomas Gallus, Bonaventure and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing have interpreted this negative implication by interpolating the affirmation that one may be united to the unknowable God through love.
We have called this tradition of reading Dionysius “affective Dionysianism”in consonance with the current scholarship.
Then, we have traced the origin of the affective interpretation of Dionysius back to Hugh of St. Victor in the twelfth century. In his Commentary on the Dionysian Celestial Hierarchy, Hugh makes clear that “love surpasses knowledge, and is greater than intelligence.” According to Paul Rorem, it is the Victorine master who has first introduced the priority of love into the reading of the Corpus Dionysiacum and laid a decisive foundation for the later development of affectivizing Dionysius.
In the next place, we have analyzed Hugh’s terminologies of love and examined in what sense “love surpasses knowledge etc.” Our findings can be summarized as follows: first, the Hugonian concept of love (dilectio/caritas) is characterized by its comprehensibility, subsuming both the affective and the cognitive motif within itself. Second, the priority of love is understood in terms of this comprehensibility and in the sense as well that love is capable of uniting the soul with God when knowledge is not in the final stage of spiritual ascent. Third, Hugh does not make any explicit statement that we cannot know God etc. Rather, he seemingly suggests that our cognitive power, liquefied by the fire of love, may penetrate into the innermost of our soul and make union the human lover with the divine beloved. In this point, Hugh differs from the anti-intellectualism of the later affective mystics.

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