Negative Theology Myth and Incarnation
Author : Arthur Hilary Armstrong
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 1981
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Author : Arthur Hilary Armstrong
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 1981
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Author : Oliver Davies
Publisher :
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,56 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Negative theology
ISBN : 9780511325618
Author : Oliver Davies
Publisher :
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 39,97 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Negative theology
ISBN : 9780511176869
Author : Chris Boesel
Publisher : Transdisciplinary Theological
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823230815
The ancient doctrine of negative theology or apophasis--the attempt to describe God by speaking only of what cannot be said about the divine perfection and goodness--has taken on new life in the concern with language and its limits that preoccupies much postmodern philosophy, theology, and related disciplines. How does this mystical tradition intersect with the concern with material bodies that is simultaneously a focus in these areas? This volume pursues the unlikely conjunction of apophasis and the body, not for the cachet of the "cutting edge" but rather out of an ethical passion for the integrity of all creaturely bodies as they are caught up in various ideological mechanisms--religious, theological, political, economic--that threaten their dignity and material well-being. The contributors, a diverse collection of scholars in theology, philosophy, history, and biblical studies, rethink the relationship between the concrete tradition of negative theology and apophatic discourses widely construed. They further endeavor to link these to the theological theme of incarnation and more general issues of embodiment, sexuality, and cosmology. Along the way, they engage and deploy the resources of contextual and liberation theology, post-structuralism, postcolonialism, process thought, and feminism. The result not only recasts the nature and possibilities of theological discourse but explores the possibilities of academic discussion across and beyond disciplines in concrete engagement with the well-being of bodies, both organic and inorganic. The volume interrogates the complex capacities of religious discourse both to threaten and positively to draw upon the material well-being of creation.
Author : Chris Boesel
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,34 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Human body
ISBN : 9780823247431
This work pursues the unlikely conjunction of apophasis and the body, not for the cachet of the 'cutting edge' but rather out of an ethical passion for the integrity of all creaturely bodies as they are caught up in various ideological mechanisms that threaten their dignity and material well-being.
Author : Nahum Brown
Publisher : Springer
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3319659006
In this volume, scholars draw deeply on negative theology in order to consider some of the oldest questions in the philosophy of religion that stand as persistent challenges to inquiry, comprehension, and expression. The chapters engage different philosophical methodologies, cross disciplinary boundaries, and draw on varied cultural traditions in the effort to demonstrate that apophaticism can be a positive resource for contemporary philosophy of religion.
Author : Deirdre Carabine
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1620328623
""This book contains a careful, thorough, and where necessary skeptical as regards doubtful evidence (especially in the case of Plato and the Old Academy) of the beginnings in European thought of the negative or apophatic way of thinking and its relations to more positive or kataphatic ways of thinking about God. One of its greatest strengths, perhaps the greatest, is that the author makes clear that none of the persons concerned, Hellenic, Jewish or Christian, was engaged in the pursuit of a philosophical abstraction, or the heaping of rhetorical superlatives on God. They were rather concerned to present the origin of the universe as an intimately present living reality which infinitely transcends our thought and speech. This, combined with careful attention to the varieties of negative theology and its relations with positive, and the particular difficulties experienced by the members of the various traditions involved, makes the book the best introduction to the negative theology available."" -A. H. Armstrong, Emeritus Professor of Greek, University of Liverpool, England. Emeritus Professor of Classics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Senior Fellow of the British Academy. Irish academic Deirdre Carabine has lived and taught in Uganda for more than twenty years. She has recently been founder Vice-Chancellor at the Virtual University of Uganda (VUU), the first fully online university in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to that she set up International Health Sciences University in Kampala. She has taught at Queen's Belfast, University College Dublin, and Uganda Martyrs University. Currently, she is Director of Programmes at VUU. She attended the Queen's University of Belfast where she graduated with a PhD in philosophy, and University College Dublin where, as one of the first Newman Scholars, she gained a second PhD in Classics. She is also author of John Scottus Eriugena in the Great Medieval Thinkers Series (2000).
Author : John Hick
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664230371
In this groundbreaking work, John Hick refutes the traditional Christian understanding of Jesus of Nazareth. According to Hick, Jesus did not teach what was to become the orthodox understanding of him: that he was God incarnate who became human to die for the sins of the world. Further, the traditional dogma of Jesus' two natures--human and divine--cannot be explained satisfactorily, and worse, it has been used to justify great human evils. Thus, the divine incarnation, he explains, is best understood metaphorically. Nevertheless, he concludes that Christians can still understand Jesus as Lord and the one who has made God real to us. This second edition includes new chapters on the Christologies of Anglican theologian John Macquarrie and Catholic theologian Roger Haight, SJ.
Author : Denys Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521645614
A closely argued book about what the negative tradition in Western theology involves.
Author : John R. Bussanich
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004089969