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Nastasya’s Revolt: Metaphysical Significance of Contrariness in Dostoevsky [PDF]
This article explores the concept of perversity (contrariness) in Dostoevsky, concluding that it should be understood as a religious notion as opposed to merely ethical.
Denis A. Zhernokleyev
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INTERTWINEMENT: THE MODALITIES OF THE UNGRASPABLE
The aim of this paper is to accentuate the distinction between the ineffable, the unrepeatable and the conceptually ungraspable. These are to be considered as three modalities of the ungraspable language that enable us to understand Derrida’s attitude ...
Alzbeta KUCHTOVA
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The landscape of current trinitarian theology seems to be settling into three chief domains: Latin (or classical) trinitarianism, social trinitarianism, and apophatic (or mysterian) trinitarianism.
Dennis Bray
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Apophatic Austen: Speaking about Silence in Austen’s Fiction
In this essay I examine Austen’s interest in the rhetorical figure of apophasis, which occurs when a speaker claims not to say something but, in fact, says it.
Anne Toner
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Normative Political Theology as Intensified Critique [PDF]
Some theorists are suspicious of normative political theology because they believe it undermines critical rationality. In my view, these theorists neglect theological traditions that resist dogmatism through intensified critique.
Newheiser, David
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Towards Quantifying a Wider Reality: Shannon Exonerata
In 1872 Ludwig von Boltzmann derived a statistical formula to represent the entropy (an apophasis) of a highly simplistic system. In 1948 Claude Shannon independently formulated the same expression to capture the positivist essence of information.
Robert E. Ulanowicz
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What is Apophaticism? Ways of Talking About an Ineffable God [PDF]
Apophaticism -- the view that God is both indescribable and inconceivable -- is one of the great medieval traditions of philosophical thought about God, but it is largely overlooked by analytic philosophers of religion.
Gabriel, Citron, Michael, Scott
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Arethas of Caesarea and Aristotelian studies. Study of case
Artykuł przybliża postać bizantyjskiego myśliciela, przedstawiciela renesansu bizantyjskiego, żyjącego w X w., biskupa Aretasa z Cezarei, oraz jego komentarz do Kategorii Arystotelesa.
Christos Terezis, Eirini Artemi
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The substructure of stasis-theory from Hermagoras to Hermogenes [PDF]
This paper analyses the history of the scheme aition, sunekhon, krinomenon in the rhetorical theory of stasis (issue-theory). The role of this scheme in the theory of Hermagoras of Temnos is reconstructed; it is shown that successive changes of position ...
Heath, M.
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Late Medieval Mysticism and the Analogy of Grace and Nature
Erich Przywara’s insightful and Christological interpretation of Aquinas’ maxim regarding grace and nature suggests that nature and reason ought to pass through a redemptive ‘death’ with respect to grace and faith.
Christopher M. Wojtulewicz
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