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Four theological works are attributed to Dionysius: ''The Divine Names'', ''The Mystical Theology'', ''The Celestial Hierarchy'', and ''The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy'', as well as eleven letters. Many scholars doubt While there were occasional questions raised regarding the true authorship of the Dionysian writings in the Middle Ages, it is Koch and Stiglmayer's work (1895) that definitively laid to rest the idea of tracing the apostle himself wrote these works, often calling texts back to the author "Pseudo-Dionysius," supporting apostolic age. The scholarly consensus now identifies the notion that they are corpus as the works work of a fifth-century Syrian student of the pagan Neoplatonist Proclus(for more see for instance Andrew Louth, ''Denys the Areopagite'', a controversial as well Jaroslav Pelikan, "The Odyssey of Dionysian Spirituality" in nature theory''Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works'').{{citation|Is this a Chalcedonean supported source/opinion?}} On the one hand they have Pseudo-Dionysius has been accused of "employing Neoplatonic language to elucidate Christian theological and mystical ideas."<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dionysius_the_Areopagite&oldid=221352184 Wikipedia: Dionysius the Areopagite]; cf. also [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pseudo-Dionysius_the_Areopagite&oldid=220002373 Wikipedia: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite]</ref> Whatever the provenance of the texts But, their theology was incorporated into the mainstream of Orthodox theology through its adoption by St. [[Maximus the Confessor]]. While while some recent Orthodox scholars have been 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]), and [[Vladimir Lossky]], who sees it the Dionysian interpretation of the unknowability of God as fundamental to any Christian theology thought and as setting the stage for the work St. Gregory Palamas (''The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church''). However controversial the texts, their theology was incorporated into the mainstream of Orthodox theology through its adoption by St. [[Maximus the Confessor]] and St. John of Damascus.