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Die Moderne verhilft in Gestalt neuer Transzendenzerfahrungen der antiken Tradition der Negativen Theologie zu einer bemerkenswerten Renaissance. Die vorliegende Studie versteht sich als Rekonstruktion der antiken Anfänge negativ-theologischer Denkformen, die bis in die vorexilische Zeit des Alten Testaments zurückreichen, aber auch in anderen religionsphilosophischen Traditionen der biblischen Umwelt Spuren hinterlassen haben. Sie spiegeln dabei zeitgenössische Erfahrungen von Alterität und Negativität wider, die den Grundgedanken monotheistischer Gottesverständnisse sinnkonstitutiv reflektieren.

Negative theology.

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Negative theology --- Christianity

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Wittgenstein's religious thought is not well understood. And Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion is charged with fideism, religious non-realism, and even crypto-atheism. These charges, however, are borne of misunderstandings that are a result of the critics' being oblivious of apophatic theology. This book is intended to help clear some of those misunderstandings and neutralize the above-mentioned charges. It argues that Wittgenstein's religious thought shares kinship with the thought of apophaticists in Christendom such as the Pseudo-Dionysius and St. Thomas Aquinas. What appear to be fideism, non-realism, or crypto-atheism to the critics appear differently to those who see Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion from the apophaticists' point of view--Wittgenstein's religious point of view.

Religion --- Negative theology. --- Philosophy. --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, --- Negative theology --- Philosophy

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"Rowan Williams distinguishes four modes of 'negative theology' - what we do not and cannot know about God. He argues that such theology is best approached within the context of the worshipping Church and that it offers some intriguing pointers towards a better understanding of artistic endeavor"--

Negative theology --- God (Christianity) --- Christianity --- Knowableness

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In A New Apophaticism Susannah Ticciati draws on Augustine to develop an apophatic theology for the twenty-first century. Shifting the focus away from the potential and failure of words to say something about God, the book suggests that the purpose of God-language is to transform human beings in their relationship with God. Augustine's doctrine of predestination is read, with the help of speech-act theory and the study of indexicals, for its power to effect redemptive change; and his De doctrina christiana is drawn upon for its semiotics. Together they make way for the hypothesis that God-language transforms human beings into better signs of God.

Negative theology --- Christianity --- History of doctrines. --- Augustine,