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Analytic Criticisms of Apophaticism

2020
Objections to apophaticism from recent philosophical literature are discussed and answered. Plantinga’s objection that apophaticism is self-refuting, his view that apophaticism reinterprets and dilutes the content of faith, and an objection examined by Scott, relating to the relationship between apophaticism and theories of reference, receive coverage.
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Metalinguistic Apophaticism

Abstract A conviction had by many Christians over many centuries is that natural language is inadequate for describing God. This is the doctrine of divine ineffability. Apophaticism understands divine ineffability as it being justified or proper to negate statements that describe God.
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Analogy and Apophaticism: Neglected Themes in Feminist Philosophy of Religion

New Blackfriars, 2019
AbstractTaking the important work of Grace Jantzen as its starting-point, this article challenges the dominant pan-metaphoricism of Feminist philosophy of religion. Throughout, I defend an apophatic interpretation of analogy – analogy as a dynamic rhythm between affirmation and negation, praise and silence.
Oliver Tromans
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Unknow Thyself: Apophaticism, Deconstruction, and Theology after Ontotheology

Modern Theology, 2003
This essay investigates the relationship between post‐structuralist thought and apophaticism, arguing via Pseudo‐Dionysius and Meister Eckhart that theology at its most negative eludes logocentric determinations by disabling the two lynchpins of ontotheology. These are the self‐determined "self" and the conceptually domesticated "God"; by unhinging the
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A New Apophaticism

2013
In A New Apophaticism Susannah Ticciati draws on Augustine to develop an apophatic theology for the twenty-first century. Shifting the focus away from the potential and failure of words to say something about God, the book suggests that the purpose of God-language is to transform human beings in their relationship with God.
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