‘Whereof We Speak’: Gregory of Nyssa, Jean-Luc Marion and the Current Apophatic Rage
Recent postmodern discussions of the Christian apophatic tradition level a noteworthy criticism: after all its negations doesn't Christian apophatic discourse in fact slip back into kataphatic assertions about God? This article seeks to address this claim by bringing into concert two important...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2001
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Heythrop journal
Year: 2001, Volume: 42, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-12 |
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| Summary: | Recent postmodern discussions of the Christian apophatic tradition level a noteworthy criticism: after all its negations doesn't Christian apophatic discourse in fact slip back into kataphatic assertions about God? This article seeks to address this claim by bringing into concert two important Christian apophaticists (Gregory of Nyssa and Jean-Luc Marion) in order to designate a type of discourse that emerges from apophatic union, a discourse that is not kataphatic but logophatic. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-2265 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2265.00151 |