The architecture of apophasis: exploring options for a cognitive scientific interpretation of the via negativa

This article charts possibilities for discerning cognitive mechanisms that mediate apophatic cognition (and its purportedly self-transforming effects) in negative streams of Christian thought and practice. First, it tests the extent to which (1) Schjoedt’s et al. "cognitive depletion" mode...

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Main Author: Hollingsworth, Andrea (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2016
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 4, Pages: 290-306
Further subjects:B Cognitive Science
B Spirituality
B Neuroscience
B Mysticism
B Psychology
B Relationality
B Emotion
B Apophaticism
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