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The Platonic-Biblical Origins of Apophatic Theology: Philo of Alexandria’s Philosophical Interpretation of the Pentateuchal Theophanies

Verbum Vitae, 2023
This article examines Philo’s philosophical interpretation of the three theophanies in Exodus, which would, centuries later, continue to be considered by the great thinkers responsible for developing negative theology, such as Gregory of Nyssa and ...
Damian Mrugalski
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Knowing The Unknowable, Reaching The Unreachable The Apophatic Theology of Gregory of Nyssa

Roczniki Teologiczne, 2023
The article analyses the apophatic theology of Gregory of Nyssa. The thought system of Gregory Nyssen in its soteriological and ontological structure resides on a twofold division between God – uncreated intellectual being and intellectual creation.
Wojciech Szczerba
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The Neoplatonic Roots of Apophatic Theology in Medieval Islam on the Example of Maqāmāt aṭ-ṭuyūr/Manṭiq aṭ-ṭayr (The Conference of the Birds) by ʿAṭṭār Nīšāpūrī (ca. 1145–1221)

Verbum Vitae, 2023
This study will focus on the metaphysical and theological thought of Farīd ad-dīn ʿAṭṭār Nīšāpūrī, i.e. Abū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (ca. 1145/6–1221).
Krzysztof Kościelniak
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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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The Relationship between Qazi Saeed Qomi’s Apophatic Theology and the Concept of Oneness amongst Mu’tazila, Shi’ites and Mystics

Mirror of Wisdom, 2022
Denying any resemblances between the creator and creatures, Qazi Saeed Qomi sets his ideas apart from the typical cataphatic theology in Islamic discourse as well as the conventional theology of Shi’ism.
javad nazari, shamsollah seraj, M. Ziaei
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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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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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