The Unknown God: Negative Theology in the Platonic Tradition: Plato to Eriugena

The Unknown God: Negative Theology in the Platonic Tradition: Plato to Eriugena
ISBN-10
1725232723
ISBN-13
9781725232723
Series
The Unknown God
Category
Religion
Pages
382
Language
English
Published
2015-01-26
Publisher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Author
Deirdre Carabine

Description

"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.

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