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Mysticism: a way of unknowing

Acta Theologica, 2008
The phenomenon of mysticism has been a cause of intense debate for philosophers, religionists, and theologians for centuries. Interest in mysticism is particularly vibrant in the 21st century, not only among the afore-mentioned, but also from other ...
C. E. T. Kourie
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Love’s Deepest Abyss: A Contemplative Ecology of Darkness

Journal of Contemplative Studies
“Love’s deepest abyss is her most beautiful form,” so claims Hadewijch of Antwerp, the great medieval Flemish mystic. This strange and alluring idea, shared by many of the apophatic tradition, reflects the sense that the abyssal (sometimes conceived of ...
Douglas E. Christie
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Considering the Place of Apophaticism within Science-Engaged Theology

Zygon
Despite its firm embeddedness in the Christian tradition, apophatic theology has been strangely absent in the science-and-religion dialogue. Given that the apophatic theologian eschews the idea that we can fully comprehend God, or positively articulate ...
Mikael Leidenhag
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Apophatic science: how computational modeling can explain consciousness. [PDF]

Neurosci Conscious, 2021
Bridewell W, Isaac AMC.
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Apophatic Theology of God’s Incomprehensible Trinitarianism as Seen by Vladimir N. Lossky

Collectanea Theologica
The purpose of this text is to present the apophatic struggle with the incomprehensible mystery of God’s trinitarianism by one of the most eminent Orthodox theologians of the 20th century, and a radical defender of the apophatic nature of Christian ...
Michał Płóciennik
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Searching for the Good Life: Boundary Crossing, Co-Existence, and Conviviality. [PDF]

Postdigit Sci Educ, 2023
Coeckelbergh M, Reader J.
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Towards Quantifying a Wider Reality: Shannon Exonerata

Information, 2011
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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From New Materialism to the Postdigital: Religious Responses to Environment and Technology. [PDF]

Postdigit Sci Educ, 2021
Reader J.
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Plotinus’s Apophatic Theology

Ideas and Ideals, 2020
The purpose of this article is to analyze the content of Plotinus’s apophatic theology. The problem of the limit of human cognition has always been topical in the history of the human thought. The absolute reality acted as such a limit in Platonism. The apophatic aspect was the final step of its cognition.
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The Logic of Pregnancy. [PDF]

J Med Philos, 2023
Bornemark J.
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