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Abolition Theology? Or, the Abolition of Theology? Towards a Negative Theology of Practice

Religions, 2019
On February 8, 1971, Michel Foucault announced the formation of Le Groupe d’information sur les prisons (the Prisons Information Group [GIP]), a group of activist intellectuals who worked to amplify the voices of those with firsthand knowledge of ...
Brandy Daniels
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Proclus’ View about Negative Theology [PDF]

Metaphysics, 2012
Negative theology is a modern theological approach that idiomatically implies those theological doctrines which are based on the negative premises and concepts for describing God. Among Greeks, this approach was on its climax in Neo-Platonism. Proclus is
S Rahimiyan, Z Eskandari
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Postmodernism and Negative Theology [PDF]

Bijdragen, 1997
SummaryTo clarify our present-day postmodern context and to ascertain the critical consciousness of our time, we present a number of main lines of thought in the work of Wolfgang Welsch, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Richard Rorty. Each one of them has emphasized an aspect that perhaps is characteristic for the postmodern time.
Boeve, Lieven
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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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Interrupting Christian Identity Construction: Catholic Dialogue Schools and Negative Theology

Religions, 2022
In a recent article, Didier Pollefeyt reflected on the worrisome observation that young children seemingly successfully raised in the Christian faith in Catholic schools lose this faith by the end of secondary education. According to him, the combination
Lieven Boeve
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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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Negative Theology as an Expression of God’s Freedom in the Torah of the Book of Deuteronomy and Wisdom Literature of the Hebrew Bible

Verbum Vitae, 2023
This paper traces the history of the negative theology of YHWH from the beginning of the integration of YHWH into the Canaanite pantheon to the post-exilic period in the Torah through the interpretation of the Shema’ Israel from its mono-Yahwistic ...
Eckart Otto
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One God – Many Religions? The Role of Negative Theology in Contemporary Interpretations of Religious Pluralism

Verbum Vitae, 2023
The article discusses the role of negative theology in contemporary interpretations of religious pluralism in an analytical and synthetic way. One of such interpretations is the pluralistic theology of religion.
Krystian Kałuża
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The Construction of Negative Theology in Pesantren and Madrasa in Malang, East Java

Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam, 2020
This article discusses the metaphysical construction of divinity in the Indonesian Islamic education institutions, namely madrasa and pesantren. The research has been held in Malang, East Java.
Mustari Bosra, Umiarso Umiarso
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Negative Theology and Theophany in Dante’s Paradiso

Verbum Vitae, 2023
Dante’s Paradiso presents a gothic theophany realizing the divine vision (visio Dei) in poetic language. Specifically, Dante’s vision of a line from Scripture (DILIGITE IUSTITIAM QUI IUDICATIS TERRAM) in the Heaven of Jove (Canto XVIII) gives a concrete
William Franke
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