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Can There Be an Apophatic Science-engaged Theology?

Theology and Science
Although firmly embedded in the Christian tradition, apophaticism remains an underrepresented voice in the dialogue between science and theology. This is no surprise given that apophatic theology eschews the idea that we can fully comprehend God’s nature and divine activity.
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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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Apophatic theology as a resource for eco-theology

International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 2022
This essay explores the potential for eco-theology as a part of the (Christian) theological tradition that, so far, has only been analyzed to a limited extent with regard to what it might contribute to forms of theology that further more sustainable forms of humankind’s (co-)inhabitation of the world: the tradition of apophatic theology.
Iris Veerbeek, Peter-Ben Smit
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Kazimir Malevich’s Negative Theology and Mystical Suprematism

Religions, 2021
This article examines Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematist art in the context of negative (apophatic) theology, as a crucial tool in analyzing both the artist’s theoretical conclusions and his new visual optics.
Irina Sakhno
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Negative Capabilities: Investigating Apophasis in AI Text-to-Image Models

Religions, 2023
Through a case study of images generated by Swedish artist Steph Maj Swanson using an AI text-to-image (T2I) model, this article explores the strategy of negative weight prompting in T2I models as a phenomenon of apophasis.
Hannah Lucas
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It is impossible not to “trust” Frank... Semyon Frank and George Florovsky [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2021
The article examines the life and creative connections of two prominent Russian thinkers of the 20th century, S. L. Frank and Revd. Georgy Florovsky. It fi rst looks the biographical aspects of their relationship and then analyses Revd.
Teresa Obolevitch
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Антиномичност језика и апофатичко богословље Владимира Лоског

Godišnjak, 2020
Vladimir Lossky was one of the greatest and most important Orthodox theologians in 20th century; he has greatly contributed to Neo-Patristic synthesis, while his works will introduce the spirit of Eastern theology to Christian West.
Goran Vučković
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From abstraction to unsaying: how the Eunomian controversy changed Gregory of Nyssa’s aphairetic ethics to an apophatic ethics

Vox Patrum, 2018
In early Christian thinking negative theology was often applied for polemi­cal purposes, as a means of asserting the Christian distinction between God and everything else.
Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch
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A page from Russian cosmology in the Trinitarian story of creation

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2022
This article approached the doctrine of the Trinity from the vantage point of the science and religion dialogue, because the issue of faith and reason is integral to this concept. This approach requires humility and silence.
Johan Buitendag
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What is Apophaticism? Ways of Talking About an Ineffable God [PDF]

, 2016
Apophaticism -- the view that God is both indescribable and inconceivable -- is one of the great medieval traditions of philosophical thought about God, but it is largely overlooked by analytic philosophers of religion.
Gabriel, Citron, Michael, Scott
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