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An Apophaticism of the Human

Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences
Many of the contributors to the »After Science and Religion« project suggest that the methodological naturalism of scientific practice inevitably entails metaphysical naturalism. Ironically, these authors agree with Christian physicalists, members of the science +amp; religion field, who maintain that the successes of neuroscience render the soul ...
Eugenia Torrance
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Apophaticism of the Christian Faith

Study of Religion, 2020
. The article examines the traditional philosophy problem of reason and faith, which has two aspects regarding the subject of knowledge. This problem is revealed in the context of the patristic Christian tradition, since the traditional approach in ...
N. Tsepeleva
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Theological Apophaticism and Philosophical Nihilism Towards a Theory of Knowledge [PDF]

Teología y vida, 2019
The term ‘apophaticism’ (ἀποφατισμός) is one of the fundamental concepts for theological thinking in Christian East nowadays. In fact, it defines a fundamental gnoseological premise that directly affects the way in which thinking progresses in this ...
Federico Aguirre
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Apophaticism Transformed: Apophaticism Transformed [PDF]

Modern Theology, 2015
M. Higton
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Absolute Discourse of Theology

Diakrisis, 2022
This article first defines the absolute discourse, then discusses its possibility in theology, as well as the relationships between language, thought, and reality as they derive from the spirituality and life of the Eastern Church.
Nicolae Turcan
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Embracing the Unknowable: Paradigm of Ineffability

Religions, 2023
Ineffability is a long-time partner of the philosophy of religion and mysticism. Through apophatic conceptions of the divine, it can act to guarantee the transcendence of the divine, elevate it to something beyond our conceptions.
Antti Piilola
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Apophatic and Anthropomorphic Visions of God in Philo of Alexandria

Verbum Vitae, 2023
Despite his core theological convictions that God is incorporeal, formless, invisible, and unchangeable, in some of his most carefully crafted visio Dei texts Philo portrays God “changing shape” and temporarily adopting a human form.
Scott D. Mackie
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Objects of Plato’s аpophaticism

Philosophy of the History of Philosophy, 2023
The article discusses the theme of Plato’s apophatic discourse. A specific feature of Plato’s dialectics is the ability to perceive two opposite points of view on objectivity.
R. Svetlov
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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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How Negative Is the Theology of Dionysius the Areopagite?

Verbum Vitae, 2023
This paper considers three recent studies on the negative theology of the Neoplatonists and Dionysius the Areopagite. The first is that of Lloyd Gerson, who argues that the One in Plotinus does not lack transcend existence but only definite existence ...
Mark Edwards
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