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From abstraction to unsaying: how the Eunomian controversy changed Gregory of Nyssa’s aphairetic ethics to an apophatic ethics

Vox Patrum, 2018
In early Christian thinking negative theology was often applied for polemi­cal purposes, as a means of asserting the Christian distinction between God and everything else.
Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch
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The Power and Limits of Reason: Al-Rāzī on the Possibility of General and Particular Metaphysical Knowledge [PDF]

Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2021
This article examines al-Rāzī’s views on the possibility of metaphysical knowledge. Firstly, after outlining his classification of the metaphysical knowable into essence and existence as well as undetailed (ijmālī) and detailed (taf~īlī), the article ...
Eşref Altaş
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Elements of Apophatic Theology in the Writings of Elizabeth of the Trinity

Verbum Vitae, 2023
The article is a theological and spiritual reflection on the spiritual doctrine of the French mystic St. Elizabeth of the Trinity OCD (Élisabeth Catez), who lived from 1880 to 1906. The present study seeks to explain the reason why apart from cataphatic
Jan Miczyński
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Negative Theology and Meaningless Suffering [PDF]

Modern Theology, 2019
AbstractThis article attempts an exploration of the limits of our capacity to weave suffering into patterns of meaning. I try to show that something like an apophatic moment in our response to some kinds of suffering is both necessary and difficult to sustain.
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Reconstruction of argumentation about the possibility of natural theology in confessional polemics at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries

, 2021
This article describes the problem of the possibility of natural theology, as it was understood in the discussion between Catholics and Protestants at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. The topic is relevant because on the one hand, the category
Savinov, Rodion V.
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Deconstruction of Derrida as an Approach to the Possibility of Religious Thought (Derrida and the Possibility of Religious Thought) [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2020
In Derrida's thought, "deconstruction" is not a "method" but an "approach" that questions the whole of metaphysical ideas and the tradition of Western philosophy from Plato to Husserl.
Ali Fathi
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Negative Capabilities: Investigating Apophasis in AI Text-to-Image Models

Religions, 2023
Through a case study of images generated by Swedish artist Steph Maj Swanson using an AI text-to-image (T2I) model, this article explores the strategy of negative weight prompting in T2I models as a phenomenon of apophasis.
Hannah Lucas
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Foucault, Magritte and negative theology beyond representation

, 2013
Recent theological writings on the French philosopher Michel Foucault often mention Foucault in relation to negative theology. This article discusses the negative motion in Foucauldian thinking through Foucault's essay on the Belgian painter René ...
Carlsson, Petra
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‘…It was my choice to see how I can acquire this Western world education… and I'm happy…’: Structuration and the dialectic nature of being a Nigerian university student in the UK

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
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La coïncidence des contraires dans l'œuvre de Samuel Beckett

Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2011
Whatever the genre Beckett chooses to express himself, his writings feed on an impressive literary, aesthetic, philosophical and theological substrate.
Lydie Parisse
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