Setting aside some quibbles about St. Dionysios the Areopagite, and "pseudo-Dionysios" who probably authored the works attributed to him centuries later
One of the fun things about taking this stuff seriously is that both can be true at the same time. St Dionysius, having been a friend of Saint Paul and enjoyed veneration for some centuries, was perfectly capable of having a talk with a Syrian monk sometime around the year 500 and telling him what to write. I imagine that most mainstream Christians would bristle at calling the Corpus Dionysianum channeled writing... but that'e exactly how I see it! Speaking of which,
But the very mainstream protestant churches I grew up in seem to fully endorse the idea that we are a body and a soul, the soul is the permanent part, and the body is the corrupt decaying temporary sin-magnet (and while they don't generally say it, the overall feeling is that sins of the body are icky and contaminating, and sins of the intellect generally ignored or glossed over) part we should look forward to leaving behind-- "my soul, which springs beyond thy sphere, no more demands thy aid..." I'd argue most modern protestants are essentially gnostic in this way. Not sure about Catholics.
I suppose I should be more clear on this point. When I say "Christian mainstream," I mean Orthodox and Catholic. Growing up in a Protestant country, after the Protestants had conquered most of the planet, it's easy to see them as mainstream, but they aren't. I haven't looked into their anthropological views because, honestly, I find their practices and their theology so completely unappealing. I suppose I should remedy that. (The Anglicans are an exception, but I'm not sure that they can be seen as "Protestant" in quite the same way!)
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One of the fun things about taking this stuff seriously is that both can be true at the same time. St Dionysius, having been a friend of Saint Paul and enjoyed veneration for some centuries, was perfectly capable of having a talk with a Syrian monk sometime around the year 500 and telling him what to write. I imagine that most mainstream Christians would bristle at calling the Corpus Dionysianum channeled writing... but that'e exactly how I see it! Speaking of which,
I suppose I should be more clear on this point. When I say "Christian mainstream," I mean Orthodox and Catholic. Growing up in a Protestant country, after the Protestants had conquered most of the planet, it's easy to see them as mainstream, but they aren't. I haven't looked into their anthropological views because, honestly, I find their practices and their theology so completely unappealing. I suppose I should remedy that. (The Anglicans are an exception, but I'm not sure that they can be seen as "Protestant" in quite the same way!)