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apophatic visuality

Veritas (Porto Alegre), 2022
This paper is about the specific character of the aesthetic experience of icons. I am arguing for the idea that the aesthetic experience of icons is a necessary condition of their role and function in Christian worship, and, moreover, that this particular aesthetic experience is of an apophatic kind.
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Negation as Infinite Affirmation

Diakrisis, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to identify the meaning of negation in Dionysius the Areopagite’s apophatism: how and towards which reality does it orient contemplation and what does it actually say about God who reveals Himself?
Grigore Dinu Moș
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Review of Apophatic Literary Criticism. Notes of a Non-philologist

Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2021
Apophatic Literary Criticism. Notes of a Non-philologist’ by Marianna Dudareva demonstrates Russian spirit and reflects the immense variety of characters and plots that influence people and manifest the creative power of literature. The author introduces
A. Buller
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Apophatic Listening

Democracy & Education, 2019
In our response to “Deliberating Public Policy Issues with Adolescents,” we address the matter that students seem to be reluctant to changing their minds, opinions, and initial positions in classroom deliberations and instead see such deliberations as an opportunity to perform and publicly announce their preexisting views.
Martin Samuelsson, Ingunn Johanne Ness
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Ibn Sīnā’s Negation of Apophatic Theology: Bringing an End to Debates [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī
Although apophatic theology has attracted considerable scholarly attention, studies remain flawed both in terms of research methodology and fragmented analysis, neglecting in-depth examination of prominent philosophers.
Jafar Shanazari, Muhammad Mahdi Meshkati, Ebrahim Rezaei   +2 more
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Apophasis and System. Dogmatic Theology in Apophatic Perspective

Verbum Vitae, 2023
The subject of the article is the nature of theological apophasis in relation to the systematic aspirations of theological reflection. This relationship is analyzed from the perspective of the three essential truths of Christianity that form the hard ...
Robert Woźniak
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Metaphors for Metamorphosis: The Poetics of Kenosis and the Apophasis of Self in Saint John of the Cross

Religions
Spanish mystic Saint Juan (John) of the Cross (1542–1591) began writing poetry while imprisoned by his own monastic order. He developed manuals for contemplation, in part, in the form of commentaries on his principal poems.
George Faithful
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The Unspoken and The Forbidden in André Scrima’s Thought as a Way to Encounter the Other

Religions, 2022
André Scrima’s interest in Christian–Muslim dialogue goes beyond a historical or comparative approach. In this sense, knowledge from within the two monotheisms is achieved through an apophatic theology.
Mihai-Iulian Danca
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Esoteric Potentiality in Creating and Viewing Angel-themed Photographs

Approaching Religion
This article explores esoteric potentiality—the perceived possibility of accessing the otherworldly—through a hermeneutic framework that integrates artist intent, the photographic image and audience reception.
Oscar Ortiz-Nieminen, Terhi Utriainen, Alexandra Bergholm   +2 more
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Apophatic Finitism and Infinitism

Logique et Analyse, 2019
This article is about the ontological dispute between finitists, who claim that only finitely many numbers exist, and infinitists, who claim that infinitely many numbers exist. Van Bendegem set out to solve the 'general problem' for finitism: how can one recast finite fragments of classical mathematics in finitist terms?
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