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Without Negative Theology: Deconstruction and the Politics of Negative Theology
Heythrop Journal - Quarterly Review of Philosophy and Theology, 2001This article explores Derrida's reading of negative theology and, in particular, his dramatic claim that there would be no politics ‘without’ negative theology. It begins by summarising the general thrust of Derrida's critique of negative theology. It then focuses upon the complex history of the term ‘without’ in Derrida's texts on Pseudo‐Dionysius ...
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Abstract How can we live in harmony with the universe, and not just in it? What is it to feel at home in the world? Some thinkers who feel the force of these questions reach for the concept of God. Others do not. This book asks what might be at stake in the choice of whether or not to speak about God: not just in terms of abstract ...
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2019
Abstract One ancient reaction to the difficulties of identifying and describing God is to say that we cannot know what God is, we can only say what he is not. But does that leave any room at all for belief in God? One classic response is to say that we can apply terms to God only in some analogical sense.
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Abstract One ancient reaction to the difficulties of identifying and describing God is to say that we cannot know what God is, we can only say what he is not. But does that leave any room at all for belief in God? One classic response is to say that we can apply terms to God only in some analogical sense.
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Negative Theology in the Renaissance
, 2020 The term “negative theology” refers to any discourse or examination that goes in search of God by negation (via negationis). Negative theology is sometimes used by theologians who deny the possibility for human intellect of knowing God.
Andrea Fiamma, Fiamma A
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The negative theology of absolute infinity: Cantor, mathematics, and humility
International Journal for Philosophy of ReligionCantor argued that absolute infinity is beyond mathematical comprehension. His arguments imply that the domain of mathematics cannot be grasped by mathematical means. We argue that this inability constitutes a foundational problem.
Rico Gutschmidt +2 more
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Adorno; or, Negative Dialectics as Negative Theology
2020Examines the concept of secularization in the writings of Theodor W. Adorno, with special emphasis on the development of negative dialectics as an attempt to realize the principle that theological concepts can survive only if they undergo a “migration into the profane.”
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‘Mystic Atheism’: Julia Kristeva's Negative Theology
Theology and Sexuality, 2008 This article examines Julia Kristeva's paradoxical concept of a ‘mystic atheism’. It falls into three parts. First, it briefly surveys Kristeva's psychoanalytic account of Christian theology in Au commencement était l'amour (1985).
Bradley, Arthur
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2018
The term ‘negative theology’ refers to theologies which regard negative statements as primary in expressing our knowledge of God, contrasted with ‘positive theologies’ giving primary emphasis to positive statements. The distinction was developed within Muslim, Jewish and Christian theism.
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The term ‘negative theology’ refers to theologies which regard negative statements as primary in expressing our knowledge of God, contrasted with ‘positive theologies’ giving primary emphasis to positive statements. The distinction was developed within Muslim, Jewish and Christian theism.
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2000
Abstract Offending God and ‘offending’ the ‘little ones’ by putting stumbling blocks in their way are different things. You cannot put a stumbling-block in God’s way. But it is certainly possible to offend him. One of the things which offends him most is ‘offending’ his ‘little ones’.
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Abstract Offending God and ‘offending’ the ‘little ones’ by putting stumbling blocks in their way are different things. You cannot put a stumbling-block in God’s way. But it is certainly possible to offend him. One of the things which offends him most is ‘offending’ his ‘little ones’.
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