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Author Knepper, Timothy D., author.

Title Negating negation : against the apophatic abandonment of the Dionysian Corpus / Timothy D. Knepper
Published Cambridge : James Clarke, 2014

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Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Contents; Tables; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Divine Names Are Not Names; Chapter 2. Negation Does Not Negate; Chapter 3. Ranks Are Not Bypassed; Rites Are Not Negated; Chapter 4. The Ineffable God Is Not Ineffable; Conclusion; Bibliography; Back Cover
Summary 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 propertie
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite.
Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite
Negative theology -- Christianity -- History of doctrines
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- Religious.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780227902653
0227902653