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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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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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The Mediation in the Human Cognition of God in the Thought of Paul Tillich

Verbum Vitae, 2022
Paul Tillich was one of those important theologians of the 20th century who devoted much attention to issues related to theological theory of knowledge.
Marcin Walczak
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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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An Apophatic View of God and Creation [PDF]

Religious Inquiries, 2019
The English Dominican Herbert McCabe highlighted some ideas of Thomas Aquinas on the knowability of God and on creation, which can usefully challenge some widespread commonplaces.
Franco Manni
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Mysterian Social Trinitarianism: Responding to Charges of Projection, Anthropomorphism, and Apophasis

Verbum Vitae, 2023
The landscape of current trinitarian theology seems to be settling into three chief domains: Latin (or classical) trinitarianism, social trinitarianism, and apophatic (or mysterian) trinitarianism.
Dennis Bray
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The Source Antinomy of the Mystery of the Trinity as the Foundation and Hermeneutical Key of Christian Apophaticism in the View of Vladimir N. Lossky

Verbum Vitae, 2023
For some time now, there has been a definite revival of interest in apophatic theology within religious thinking as well as at its antipodes. It often takes the form of criticism of religion, including Christian Revelation, and thus the theology based ...
Michał Płóciennik
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Apophasis, Abnegation, and Liturgy

Warszawskie Studia Teologiczne, 2022
Apophatic theology is normally housed in the epistemological wing of the academy, and is treated as a via negativa that negates the assertion just made. This apophaticism feels like a wave that washes away every cataphatic sand castle we build.
David W. Fagerberg
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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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