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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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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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Normative Political Theology as Intensified Critique [PDF]

, 2018
Some theorists are suspicious of normative political theology because they believe it undermines critical rationality. In my view, these theorists neglect theological traditions that resist dogmatism through intensified critique.
Newheiser, David
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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 logical challenge of negative theology

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2018
In this paper I present four interpretations of so-called negative theology and provide a number of attempts to model this theory within a formal system. Unfortunately, all of them fail in some manner.
Urbańczyk Piotr
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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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Adorno on the ethical and the ineffable [PDF]

, 2002
The thesis is that Adorno has a normative ethics, albeit a minimal and negative ethics of resistance. However Adorno’s ethical theory faces two problems: the problem of the availability of the good and the problem of whether a normative ethics is ...
Finlayson, James Gordon
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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.
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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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Revisiting the ‘Reformed Objection’ to Natural Theology [PDF]

, 2009
In the present paper I address two significant and prevalent errors concerning to natural theology within the Reformed theological tradition.
Sudduth, Michael
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