Negating Negation
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Negating Negation: Against the Apophatic Abandonment of the Dionysian Corpus

Negating Negation: Against the Apophatic Abandonment of the Dionysian Corpus


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'Negating Negation' critically examines key concepts in the corpus of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite: divine names and perceptible symbols; removal and negation; hierarchy and hierurgy; ineffability and incomprehensibility. In each case it argues that the Dionysian corpus does not negate all things of an absolutely ineffable God; rather, it negates few things of a God that is effable in important ways. Dionysian divine names are not inadequate metaphors or impotent attributes but transcendent divine causes. Divine names are not therefore flatly negated of God but removed as ordinary properties to be revealed as divine causes. It is concluded that since the Dionysian corpus does not abandon all things to apophasis, it cannot be called to testify on behalf of (post)modern projects in religious pluralism and anti-ontotheology. Quite the contrary, the Dionysian corpus gives reason for suspicion of such projects, especially when they relativize or metaphorize religious belief and practice in the name of absolute ineffability.

Table of Contents:
List of Tables Preface Introduction 1 The Divine Names Are Not Names 2 Negation Does Not Negate 3 Ranks Are Not Bypassed; Rites Are Not Negated 4 The Ineffable God Is Not Ineffable Conclusion Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Timothy Knepper is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Drake University, where he chairs the Department of Philosophy and Religion and directs The Comparison Project. Timothy Knepper is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Drake University, where he chairs the Department of Philosophy and Religion and directs The Comparison Project.

Review :
"This is a book that demands the same careful attention that the author has given to the primary texts, and it would be an instructive guide, and a suitable commentary upon, Denys's writings in a tertiery course on theological language and spirituality..." -Frank England, Theological Book Review, Vol. 26 No. 2, 2015


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780227174555
  • Publisher: James Clarke & Co Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: James Clarke & Co Ltd
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 168
  • Weight: 261 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0227174550
  • Publisher Date: 25 Sep 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Against the Apophatic Abandonment of the Dionysian Corpus
  • Width: 153 mm


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