TY - BOOK ID - 377278 TI - The incomprehensibility of God : Augustine as a negative theologian PY - 2011 VL - 4 SN - 9789042924734 904292473X PB - Leuven: Peeters, DB - UniCat KW - Augustine of Hippo KW - Negative theology KW - God (Christianity) KW - Christianity KW - Knowableness KW - Augustine, KW - 276 =71 AUGUSTINUS KW - Latijnse patrologie--AUGUSTINUS KW - Via negativa (Christian theology) KW - Knowableness of God KW - Knowledge of God (Knowableness of God) KW - Knowledge (Knowableness) KW - Avgustin, Blazhennyĭ, KW - Augustinus, Aurelius, KW - Augustyn, KW - Augustin, KW - Ughasṭīnūs, KW - Agostino, KW - Agustí, KW - Augoustinos, KW - Aurelius Augustinus, KW - Augustinus, KW - Agustín, KW - Aurelio Agostino, KW - Episkopos Ippōnos Augoustinos, KW - Augoustinos Ipponos, KW - Agostinho, KW - Aurelli Augustini, KW - Augustini, Aurelli, KW - Aurelii Augustini, KW - Augustini, Aurelii, KW - Ōgostinos, KW - Agostino, Aurelio, KW - אוגוסטינוס הקדוש KW - أغسطينوس، KW - 奥古斯丁 KW - Augustine KW - God KW - Attributes KW - Avgustin, KW - Augustinus, Aurelius KW - Agostinho KW - Augustine d'Hippone KW - Agostino d'Ippona KW - Augustin d'Hippone KW - Augustinus Hipponensis, sanctus KW - Sant'Agostino KW - Augustinus van Hippo KW - Aurelius Augustinus KW - Aurelio Agostino KW - 聖アウグスティヌス KW - アウグスティヌス KW - Negative theology - Christianity KW - God (Christianity) - Knowableness KW - Augustine, - Saint, Bishop of Hippo UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:377278 AB - Augustine's way of speaking about God has been frequently deplored. It has been dismissed as too confident regarding the content of its assertions and too narrowly confined. The reception of Augustine's work appears to indicate that there was not a little truth to this view. Augustine's affirmative statements on God's essence and activities constituted the 'initial capital' of Christian theology and spirituality. In contemporary religion, a tendency is in evidence to deny that too specific an image of God can really contain absolute truth. Fully formulated religious truths have to be placed in perspective, or must even be deconstructed, especially if the suspicion arises that they inhibit openness to authentic religious experiences of unity and harmony. Given such an outlook on religion, it seems understandable that those who take contemporary culture's renewed interest in religion seriously ignored Augustine's work as an authoritative source for 'post-Christian' discourse about God. ER -