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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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Theology and the Secular [PDF]

, 2016
Sarah Coakley’s God, Sexuality, and the Self constitutes a major intervention in the debate over the role of religion in the modern world. Coakley criticizes Christians who reject modernity altogether, arguing that Christian thought should remain in ...
Newheiser, David
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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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Crossing Philosophical Boundaries in Comparative Theology: John Keenan, Joseph O'Leary and Raimon Panikkar

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 706-719, October 2025.
Abstract One of the ways in which the process of learning may occur in comparative theology is through reinterpreting the data of one religion through the philosophical framework of another. This type of learning mainly takes the form of Christian theologians reinterpreting the contents of Christian faith through Asian philosophical frameworks.
Catherine Cornille
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Self-Knowledge, Abnegation, and Ful llment in Medieval Mysticism [PDF]

, 2016
Self-knowledge is a persistent—and paradoxical—theme in medieval mysticism, which portrays our ultimate goal as union with the divine. Union with God is often taken to involve a cognitive and/or volitional merging that requires the loss of a sense of ...
Van Dyke, Christina
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Apophatic Community: Yannaras on Relational Being [PDF]

, 2019
For Martin Heidegger the story of Western philosophy ended basically in egocentrism or the metaphysics of “subjectivity”; however, he acknowledged the possibility of another path in Greece: that of pre-Socratic thinking.
DALLMAYR, Fred
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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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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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Apophatic science: how computational modeling can explain consciousness. [PDF]

Neurosci Conscious, 2021
Bridewell W, Isaac AMC.
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A Study of Perennial Philosophy and Psychedelic Experience, with a Proposal to Revise W. T. Stace’s Core Characteristics of Mystical Experience [PDF]

A Study of Perennial Philosophy and Psychedelic Experience, with a Proposal to Revise W. T. Stace’s Core Characteristics of Mystical Experience ©Ed D’Angelo 2018 Abstract According to the prevailing ...
D'Angelo, Ed
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