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Many famous books are attributed to St. Dionysius, including: ''The Divine Names of God'', ''Celestial and Ecclesiastical Hierarchies'' and ''Mystical Theology''. Many scholars doubt that the apostle himself wrote these works, often calling the author "Pseudo-Dionysius"; supporting the notion that a fifth-century Syrian student, of the pagan Neoplatonist Proclus, a controversial in nature theory. {{citation|Hi, is this a Chalcedonean supported source/opinion?}} On the one hand they have been accused of "employing Neoplatonic language to elucidate Christian theological and mystical ideas."{{ref|1}} Yet they Whatever the provenance of the texts, their theology was incorporated into the mainstream of Orthodox theology through its adoption by St [[Maximus the Confessor]]. While some recent Orthodox scholars have also been defended by scholars such as critical of the influence of the Dionysian corpus, recent defenders include Igumen [[Alexander Golitzin]] , who sees it as a fully Christian liturgical theology (''Et introibo ad altare dei: The Mystagogy of Dionysius Areopagita'' ([Thessalonika, 1994)]), while and [[Vladimir Lossky]] places the insights of Ps-Dionysius , who sees it as fundamental to any Christian theology (''The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church'').