>> Thanks. But I too would happily trade all my knowledge for 5% of what Omar, Pat, Paul and Aaron take for granted in Quantitative finance, physics and applied mathematicsvery true,and the cool thing is that we have free access to their knowledgeI think it would not be an exaggeration to say that I have learnt more from them than some Professors I had in the past !

>psuedo-DionysusThat was a typo as I assume that you meant Pseudo-Dionysius -- all of chapter 9 in Frederick Copleston's History of Philosophy Vol 2 Medieval Philosophy is devoted to Pseudo-Dionysius. Boethius is briefly mentioned in Chapter 10.I think your seminary experience helped more than you think. Did you study Aristotle's teaching on virtue in the Nichomachean Ethics?

Aristotle? 'ain tu?' Yep, and his neo-Platonist and Aristotelain children in Scholasticism. Aquinus-R-Us. If ya like Boethius may I suggest Nicolas Cusanus, but even better is Saint Bonaventure's "Mind's Road to God." If you like to approach it from a literary criticism standpoint, it is structured similarly to Gutama Siddartha's journey."That was a typo as I assume that you meant Pseudo-Dionysius..." It has probably escaped no one's attention that I could not spell "ass" if Letitia Casta was pointing her's at me. My pesky French word processor only flags English english spellings so it is useless and I have turned it off. Can't spell at all, in multiple languages.