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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, however, doubt the that the apostle himself wrote these works, often calling their author "Pseudo-Dionysius." These works, mostly like written by a fifth-century Syrian student of the pagan Neoplatonist Proclus, have been controversial in their reception. On the one hand they have been accused of "employing Neoplatonic language to elucidate Christian theological and mystical ideas."{{ref|1}} Yet they have also been defended by scholars such as Hieromonk Golitzin as a fully Christian liturgical theology(''Et introibo ad altare dei: The Mystagogy of Dionysius Areopagita'' (Thessalonika, 1994)), while Vladimir Lossky places the insights of Ps-Dionysius as fundamental to any Christian theology (''The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church''). Pseudo-Dionysius has been identified with various people in the past.