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Negation as Infinite Affirmation

Diakrisis, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to identify the meaning of negation in Dionysius the Areopagite’s apophatism: how and towards which reality does it orient contemplation and what does it actually say about God who reveals Himself?
Grigore Dinu Moș
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Playing in the Flood of Love: A Response to Michelle Voss Roberts\u27 Dualities: A Theology of Difference [PDF]

, 2011
As John Thatamanil confesses in his Foreward to Michelle Voss Roberts\u27 Dualities, I too, as a nondualist theologian, was initially apprehensive about Voss Roberts\u27 title. However, I quickly came to find that the plural emphasis of dualities and the
Bannon, Brad
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In Defence of Anthropomorphic Theism [PDF]

, 2011
I reply to seven objections to anthropomorphic theism: (1) That anthropomorphic theism is idolatrous. In reply I rely on the concept/conception distinction. (2) That faith requires certainty.
Forrest, Peter
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APOPHATIC THEOLOGY: PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS AND THOMAS AQUINAS

Innovare Journal of Social Sciences, 2023
Dionysius’s apophatic theology developed the basic tenets necessary for a deeper focus on God in Christian theology. The confusion it caused in Christian theology was powerfully presented through the investigations presented by the Neo-platonic philosophers.
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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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Christos Yannaras's View on the History of Western Theology from St. Augustine to Nietzsche

Богословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя, 2023
The article analyzes the anti-Western and radically anti-ecumenical theology of the Greek Orthodox thinker Christos Yannaras and his idea of gradual centuries-old deviation of Western theology from the authentic tradition of the early Church Fathers ...
Andrii Shymanovych
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Augustine on music as the harmonious language of spirituality: An apophatic theological study

In die Skriflig
This article arose from the study of apophatic theology also known as the via-negativa. Apophatic theology, by definition, refrains from stating what and who God is instead of focusing on what God is not.
Godfrey T. Baleng
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I Am What I Do—Negative Work as a Lens for the Study of Movement Chaplaincy

Religions, 2023
This article explores the application of the concept of negative work within Movement Chaplaincy, contending that this framework facilitates engagement with negative spirituality in this sphere of ministry.
Edda Stephanie Wolff
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ALL OR NOTHING? NATURE IN CHINESE THOUGHT AND THE APOPHATIC OCCIDENT [PDF]

, 2014
This paper develops an interpretation of nature in classical Chinese culture through dialogue with the work of François Jullien. I understand nature negatively as precisely what never appears as such nor ever can be exactly apprehended and defined.
FRANKE, WILLIAM
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‘Theological Metaphysics’ and the Christological Determination of the Principle of Analogy: A Response to John Betz's Christ, the Logos of Creation

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper is a response to John Betz's book, Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics (Emmaus Academic, 2023). The essay confines itself to answering two methodological questions, namely: Does Przywara's approach to analogy indeed represent the basic form (‘Denkform’) that analogy has ‘always assumed’ in Catholic ...
Archie J. Spencer
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