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Negative Theology Books
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Understanding and Misunderstanding 'Negative Theology' (Pere Marquette Lecture in Theology; 2021)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published
Negative Theology and Philosophical Analysis: Only the Splendour of Light (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published
Speaking the Incomprehensible God: Thomas Aquinas on the Interplay of Positive and Negative Theology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.60 — 10 ratings — published 2004
Silence and the Word: Negative Theology and Incarnation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published 1998
The Unknown God: Negative Theology in the Platonic Tradition : Plato to Eriugena (Louvain Theological and Pastoral Monographs, 19)
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avg rating 4.45 — 42 ratings — published 1995
“That we may know thy blackness is a spark
Of light inaccessible, and alone
Our darkness which can make us think it dark.”
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Of light inaccessible, and alone
Our darkness which can make us think it dark.”
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“(...) all the major theistic traditions insist at some point that our language about God consists mostly in conceptual restrictions and fruitful negations. 'Cataphatic' (or affirmative) theology must always be chastened and corrected by 'apophatic' (or negative) theology. We cannot speak of God in his own nature directly, but only at best analogously, and even then only in such a way that the conceptual content of our analogies consists largely in our knowledge of all the things that God is not. This is the via negativa of Christianity, the lahoot salbi (negative theology) of Islam, Hinduism’s 'neti, neti' ('not this, not this'). (...) And for the contemplatives of various traditions, the negation of all those limited concepts that delude us that God is just another being among beings, within our intellectual grasp, is an indispensable discipline of the mind and will. It prepares the mind for a knowledge of God that comes not from categories of analytic reason, but from—as Maximus says—the intimate embrace of union, in which God shares himself immediately as a gift to the created soul.”
― The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss
― The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss
