POJMOVNOST APOFATIČKE TEOLOGIJE: DIONIZIJE AREOPAGITA O HIMNIČKOM POREKLU FILOZOFSKIH POJMOVA.

This paper is about the changed understanding of philosophical concepts in Dionisios the Areopagite. In order to justify philosophy as a speech about God (theology) in the apophatic manner, Areopagite discards the usual conceptual matrix and creates a new type of concepts, whose origin is in eclessial hymns. The relation between the language of hymns and language of philosophy is the subject of my analysis, which will be focused on the case of key concepts - divine names. Analysis shows that these concepts do not function according to semantical and logical rules, but instead of those, although with the similar purpose, introduce namelessness and multinamedness (of God). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]