The works of St. Dionysius the Areopagite received the authoritative seal of 'Pseudo' from the rigorous, enlightened, truth-discerning work of...19th Century German philology 
Schafer here comments dated historiography. No one in contemporary academia treats P-DA the way he describes. The "Pseudo" does not carry the stigma he says it does, it merely denotes a common practice at the time, that of text attribution. cf. Maximus the Confessor.
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For sure, and he goes into the lessening of this bias in the following pages. Nevertheless, there are teachers in the Church who shy away from the Areopagite because of this academic reading (rather than his spiritual incomprehensibility outside an Ecclesiastic context).
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The difference comes down to reading something as intellectual curiosity vs within a living tradition. I don't begrudge the academics the former, but Orthodox intellectuals seem to have forgotten how to do the latter.
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