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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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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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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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Apophaticism, Mysticism, and Epoptics in Ancient and Patristic Philosophy: Some Important Examples

Verbum Vitae, 2023
This article investigates mystic apophaticism in a set of Greek Patristic theologians, profoundly informed by philosophy, especially imperial Platonism: Clement, Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, and Pseudo-Dionysius.
Ilaria Ramelli
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Apophasis and System. Dogmatic Theology in Apophatic Perspective

Verbum Vitae, 2023
The subject of the article is the nature of theological apophasis in relation to the systematic aspirations of theological reflection. This relationship is analyzed from the perspective of the three essential truths of Christianity that form the hard ...
Robert Woźniak
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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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The apophatic theology in the philosophical studies of Jacques Derrida: the experience of pure prayer and the analogic language of the hymn [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2021
This article examines the image of negative theology in the works of Jacques Derrida using the example of the theology of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Liubov Petrova
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