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APOPHATIC THEOLOGY IN THE WORKS OF EUGENE THACKER

Вестник Мининского университета, 2017
In article attempts to explore the relationship of contemporary american philosopher Eugene Thacker to apophatic theology, which is the cornerstone for almost all of his works.
A. K. Saimiddinov, E. V. Kuchinov
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Videogame consumption: The apophatic dimension [PDF]

Journal of Consumer Culture, 2016
This article applies psychological-sociological accounts of the ‘apophatic’, a form of negative thinking, to examples of gaming practices to conceptualise a new theory of videogame consumption. It challenges the prevailing notion that the games consumer is always a ‘cataphatic’ thinker – that is, an activistic, rational-pleasure seeker – and looks to ...
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Three Challenges in Political Regime Classification: The Regime Configuration Framework

Politics &Policy, Volume 53, Issue 6, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This article reviews political regime classification in the context of contemporary debates. We problematize the classical division between categorical and continuous approaches and recent responses to their limitations. We use hybrid regimes to question the conventional framing of political regime classification.
Zarina Kulaeva
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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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Analytic Theology, Model Pluralism, and Progress

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 6, Page 559-574, November 2025.
Abstract In recent discussions of methodology in analytic theology, attention has been paid to the use of model‐building—providing simplified accounts of doctrines, or clusters of doctrines, that merely approximate to the truth of the matter—as a practice that enables analytic theologians to carry out their work whilst respecting the mystery ...
Harvey Cawdron
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THEOLOGY, SCIENCE, AND CLOUD OF THE IMPOSSIBLE

Zygon, 2016
As a work of constructive theology attentive to the deconstructive edge of theology itself, Cloud of the Impossible offers a contemplative space for fresh transdisciplinary encounters.
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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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Nietzsche at the Deathbed: the Eternal Recurrence as a Counter to the ‘Preaching of Death’

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 6, Page 623-640, November 2025.
Abstract In recent scholarship, the dominant reading of Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal recurrence has been as a thought experiment. This paper responds to this in two ways. First, this paper relocates eternal recurrence in the context of Nietzsche’s abiding concern with the ‘preaching of death’, a powerful, life‐negating weapon of the ascetic ...
Mark Higgins
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Book Review: The Asian Jesus [PDF]

, 2007
A review of The Asian Jesus by Michael ...
Locklin, Reid B.
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The Lord of Limits: On Trinitarian Ontology and the Tragic

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 658-683, October 2025.
Abstract The essay focuses on a dimension of the trinitarian metaphysics of Rowan Williams. It aims to articulate his understanding of the ontological implications of the Trinity, particularly in relation to his theological leitmotif of the tragic, and has a reparative focus of easing some of the tensions that may arise in such relating.
Khegan M. Delport
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