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Apophatic and Cataphatic Ways of Soviet Political Theology

Социология власти, 2022
The discourse of political theology developed by Schmitt makes it possible to identify a secular religion in Marxism. Marxism is aimed at achieving an “earthly paradise”. In the Soviet project, based on the “dictatorship of the worldview” (Berdyaev), its
D. V. Popov
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TIME IN MUSICAL ART: CATAPHATIC AND APOPHATIC ASPECTS

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Musica, 2016
Time represents the fundamental dimension of human existence, implicitly of any human enterprise. Everything man does is articulated in time and depends on time, having a specifically temporal unfolding, with consequences on the flowing time axis ...
Petruţa-Maria COROIU
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Apophatism and Cataphatism in Protestantism

Богословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя, 2006
The author of the paper shows the essential superiority of the apophatic way of knowing God over the cataphatic way in Christian theology. Protestantism, which frequently (and often deservedly) is accused of excessive rationalism, has actually remained ...
Constantine PROKHOROV
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‘Joining into God's breath’: travail of the negative as a connection between mysticism and political activism

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 474-488, July 2023., 2023
This essay argues that a negative hermeneutics, i.e., a hermeneutics that takes its starting point from the experience of gaps, failures, and limits, is a suitable lens for the study of mysticism. It uses the concept of travail of the negative, which focuses on the dynamics of a continuous ‘unsaying’ and ‘subverting’ of traditional expressions of faith
Edda Wolff
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Being Wounded: Finitude and the Infinite in Jean Louis Chrétien and Gregory of Nyssa

Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 413-434, July 2023., 2023
Abstract Wounds appear throughout the writings of Jean‐Louis Chrétien and Gregory of Nyssa. Most well known in Chrétien's corpus is his description of prayer as a “wounded word,” a phrase that seeks to describe an ungraspable dimension of phenomenal life in which the contingency and groundlessness of finitude appear as gifts.
Thomas Breedlove
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IS THERE A DISTINCTIVE QUANTUM THEOLOGY?

Zygon®, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 265-284, March 2023., 2023
Abstract Quantum mechanics (QM) is a favorite area of physics to feature in “science and religion” discussions. We argue that this is at least partly because the arcane results of QM can be deployed to make big theological claims by the linguistic sleight of hand of “register switching”—sliding imperceptibly from technical into everyday language using ...
Wilson C. K. Poon, Tom C. B. McLeish
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Panpsychism and God

Philosophy Compass, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Panpsychism is the view, found in ancient and modern, Eastern and Western philosophies, that mind is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the universe. This article explores the use of panpsychism to support different views of God. It is seen that as a family of views, panpsychism is a theologically flexible position that has been used to ...
Joanna Leidenhag
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Sergii Bulgakov’s Linguistic Trinity*

Modern Theology, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 888-912, October 2021., 2021
Abstract As the work of Sergii Bulgakov has become more widely available in English, his Trinitarian theology has become a subject of particular interest. This article analyses his less well‐known works on the Trinity from the 1920s, arguing that the understanding of Trinitarian doctrine developed there is inseparable from Bulgakov’s analyses of ...
Joshua Heath
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The Formation of Biaoquan and Zhequan as a Pair of Philosophical Concepts in Chinese Buddhism

Religions, 2023
The general consensus in the field of Buddhist studies is that the terms “biaoquan” and “zhequan” are a pair of Buddhist philosophical concepts often used to designate two diametrically opposed forms of rhetoric.
Junqi Wang
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Intellect or Heart, Reason or Faith?

Diakrisis, 2020
Addressing the imputed opposition between Christian theology and metaphysics from the premise of the inadmissibility of severing ties with the Holy Fathers of the Church, this paper argues for the necessity of revisiting dogmatical works like the ...
Paul Andrei Mucichescu
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