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The God of falsehoods (or nonsense). Against Lebens’ apophatic theology

Religious Studies
Abstract While apophatic theology has been quickly dismissed by the vast majority of analytic philosophers, Samuel Lebens is among the few who has tried to show that such a theological position is tenable by appealing to two main philosophical moves. The first move is that many of our claims about God are false (or nonsensical).
Filippo Casati
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To Know Nothing: Apophatic Theology in the Dionysian Corpus

Živa Antika, 2016
The article briefly shows the major points of apophaticism in Pseudo-Dionysius, focusing on his stances of the incomprehensibility of God (the One, the Supreme Cause of everything, Being itself) and the limitations to men’s abilities of attaining any ...
M. Todorovska
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Apophatic and Kataphatic Theology from the Viewpoint of Eckhart [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2013
Any discussion of apophatic and kataphatic theologies as two opposite trends which have, throughout the history of philosophical though on God, attracted great thinkers, sheds light on one of the most important aspects of God-human epistemological ...
seyyed zia-adin hosseini, seyyed hamid talebzadeh   +1 more
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RELIGIOUS HYPOTHESES AND THE APOPHATIC, RELATIONAL THEOLOGY OF CATHERINE KELLER

Zygon, 2016
In one of its most urgent folds, Catherine Keller's Cloud of the Impossible juxtaposes negative theology with relational theology for the sake of thinking constructively about today's global climate of religious conflict and ecological upheaval.
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The naming of God: apophatic and antinomic approaches [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2023
The article explores the issues of the naming of God: is it possible to name God, how the name and the Named are connected, does God have his own name, is the formula "the name of God is God" acceptable for the Christian worldview?
Danil Goryachev
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Liturgy and Apophaticism

Religions, 2021
The Orthodox liturgy is a religious phenomenon that can be analyzed phenomenologically and theologically alike, given the emphasis that both phenomenology and Orthodox theology place on experience.
Nicolae Turcan
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LUTHER’S IDEA OF DEUS ABSCONDITUS AND THE APOPHATIC THEOLOGY [PDF]

Trames, 1999
Alar Laats
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Apophasis, Abnegation, and Liturgy

Warszawskie Studia Teologiczne, 2022
Apophatic theology is normally housed in the epistemological wing of the academy, and is treated as a via negativa that negates the assertion just made. This apophaticism feels like a wave that washes away every cataphatic sand castle we build.
David W. Fagerberg
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Does God Think the Same Way We Do? On the Logical Apophatism of Michał Heller

Verbum Vitae, 2023
Apophatic theology is an approach in theology that emphasizes the limitation of human language and concepts in describing the nature of the Divine. Rooted in ancient religious traditions, apophatic theology has gained attention in contemporary discourse
Wojciech Grygiel
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What Would ‘Indianness’ of New Testament Theology Mean? Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on Anthony De Mello, ‘Via Negativa’ and beyond the Accepted Routes in Catholic Theology

Religions, 2022
This article focuses on one specific theological controversy, which pertains to the kataphatic—apophatic debates as a framework for New Testament theology.
Martin Fárek
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