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Nicholas Cusanus and the Problem of Ignorance. A Minor Polemic with the Interpretation of Étienne Gilson [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana, 2023
Nicholas Cusanus is often seen as a pivotal figure in the history of Western philosophy. His writings are sometimes viewed as an attempt to reject the traditional scholarly knowledge, troubled by manifold tensions and crises, in order to prevent the ...
Antoni Śmist
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Negative Theology: Its Use and Christological Function in Late Antiquity and Subsequent Developments

Verbum Vitae, 2023
This article discusses the historical development of negative theology from its formulations in early Christianity to its later forms in Medieval Neo-Platonism.
Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch
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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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Kabbalah and Philosophy in the Early Works of Salomon Maimon

RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2020
Until recent times, the collection of Salomon Maimons early works written in Hebrew, Hesheq Shelomo , was not included into the scientific circulation.
Uri Gershowitz
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Negative Theology and Desire in Spiritual Transformation According to John of the Cross

Religions, 2022
Desire is central to John of the Cross’ treatment of the mystical ascent to God. He holds that God is desire and that there is a meeting between human and divine desire in the state of union with God, which is the goal.
Edward William Howells
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Editor\u27s Introduction [PDF]

, 2017
The main theme of this year’s issue, “Yoga and God: Hindu and Christian Perspectives,” continues a theme taken up five years ago by this journal, called “Yoga and Christianity.” The articles appearing in the present issue tend to give more explicit ...
Malkovsky, Bradley
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A Reformed Natural Theology? [PDF]

, 2012
This paper aims to counter the recent opinion that there is a peculiar epistemology in the reformed Church which made it negative to natural theology.
Rehnman, Sebastian
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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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Metaphor and Theological Realism [PDF]

, 2014
In this paper, I argue that there are indispensable and irreducible metaphors in religious language and that this does not threaten a realist interpretation of religion.
Sebastian, Gäb
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Die redekritiese aansprake van 'n negatief- dialektiese teologie¹

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2000
Negative-dialectical theology: Critical claims. From the premise of a critique of instrumental rationality, this article explores some consequences of such a critique for church and theology.
C. J. Beukes
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