Ecclesiastical Hierarchy (Annotated)

Ecclesiastical Hierarchy is a seminal treatise in the Dionysian corpus, presenting the Church's rites and offices as visible symbols of an invisible ascent to God. In a dense, ceremonially elevated prose shaped by late antique Neoplatonism and Christian sacramental theology, it interprets baptism, Eucharist, ordination, monastic profession, and funerary rites as ordered stages of purification, ill...