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Without Negative Theology: Deconstruction and the Politics of Negative Theology
The Heythrop Journal, 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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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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Negative Theology: Some Misunderstandings
Modern Theology, 2023AbstractMuch discussion of ‘negative theology’ seems to assume that it is simply a policy of not making strong truth‐claims about God, even of refusing the positive content of revelation. This essay proposes a typology of negative theologies—grammatical, qualificatory, metaphysical and descriptive—looking at the various points from which negation may ...
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Negative Theology, Myth and Incarnation
Cahiers de Fontenay, 1981Armstrong Arthur Hilary. Negative Theology, Myth and Incarnation. In: Cahiers de Fontenay, n°19-22, 1981. Néoplatonisme, mélanges offerts à Jean Trouillard. pp. 47-62.
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Thesis Eleven, 1999
Jean-Francois Lyotard's essay `Adorno as the Devil' had argued that Theodor Adorno's Philosophy of Modern Music was a `diabolic' work of `negative theology' which attributed to Schoenberg's music a secret redemptive power. However, in his later writings, such as the essays in The Inhuman, Lyotard has himself moved close to a `negative theological ...
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Jean-Francois Lyotard's essay `Adorno as the Devil' had argued that Theodor Adorno's Philosophy of Modern Music was a `diabolic' work of `negative theology' which attributed to Schoenberg's music a secret redemptive power. However, in his later writings, such as the essays in The Inhuman, Lyotard has himself moved close to a `negative theological ...
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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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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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Deconstruction, Yin-Yang, and Negative Theology
Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 1995L'A. defend la these selon laquelle l'oeuvre deconstructionniste de Derrida ne peut etre definie en terme de theologie negative. Se referant a la negation du Ying-Yang et aux differents types de pensee supplement/complement, l'A. souligne la compatibilite entre le taoisme, le neo-taoisme et la pensee de Derrida, dont la positivite emerge a travers l ...
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