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Preaching as Protest against the Apophatic Silencing of God’s People

Religions
Throughout church history, there have been those who stressed the limits of our ability to speak with confidence about God and extolled the nobility of silence in the face of God’s ineffability. Dionysius the Areopagite famously asserted, “With regard to
Will Willimon
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In Defence of Anthropomorphic Theism [PDF]

, 2011
I reply to seven objections to anthropomorphic theism: (1) That anthropomorphic theism is idolatrous. In reply I rely on the concept/conception distinction. (2) That faith requires certainty.
Forrest, Peter
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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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Are You There, God? It’s Me, the Theist: On the Viability and Virtue of Non-Doxastic Prayer [PDF]

, 2022
In this article, I explore the possibility of what I call “non-doxastic theistic prayer”, namely prayer that proceeds without full belief in God – or in the kind of God who could be the recipient of such prayer.
Griffioen, Amber
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Metaphor and Apophatic Discourse: Putting Sells in Dialogue with Lakoff and Johnson [PDF]

, 2012
In the book, Mystical Languages of Unsaying, Michael A. Sells presents a performative theory of apophatic discourse. His idea is that apophatic discourse functions as a semantic analogue to mystical experience through \"meaning events.\" Although he ...
Carroll, Thomas D.
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‘To Gather Up All Things in Christ’: John Betz's Christ, the Logos of Creation as an Exercise in the Relation of Doctrines

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers John Betz's book Christ, the Logos of Creation as an exercise in the relation of doctrines within Christian systematic theology.
Andrew Davison
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ALL OR NOTHING? NATURE IN CHINESE THOUGHT AND THE APOPHATIC OCCIDENT [PDF]

, 2014
This paper develops an interpretation of nature in classical Chinese culture through dialogue with the work of François Jullien. I understand nature negatively as precisely what never appears as such nor ever can be exactly apprehended and defined.
FRANKE, WILLIAM
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Playing in the Flood of Love: A Response to Michelle Voss Roberts\u27 Dualities: A Theology of Difference [PDF]

, 2011
As John Thatamanil confesses in his Foreward to Michelle Voss Roberts\u27 Dualities, I too, as a nondualist theologian, was initially apprehensive about Voss Roberts\u27 title. However, I quickly came to find that the plural emphasis of dualities and the
Bannon, Brad
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‘Theological Metaphysics’ and the Christological Determination of the Principle of Analogy: A Response to John Betz's Christ, the Logos of Creation

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper is a response to John Betz's book, Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics (Emmaus Academic, 2023). The essay confines itself to answering two methodological questions, namely: Does Przywara's approach to analogy indeed represent the basic form (‘Denkform’) that analogy has ‘always assumed’ in Catholic ...
Archie J. Spencer
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Prawda dogmatyczna w dynamice poznania mistycznego

Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2017
One may distinguish cataphatic and apophatic knowledge within the mystical tradition of the Church. The apophatic knowledge (obscure) is more appreciated than the positive one, because in knowing God, we attempt to know a reality absolutely transcendent.
Jan Paweł Strumiłowski
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