A Positive Side to Apophaticism: Prolegomena

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Verbum Vitae Pub Date : 2023-10-03 DOI:10.31743/vv.16458

Marek Gilski

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Abstract

The article synthetically presents positive aspects of apophaticism. It discusses its apologetic role, its importance in defending against magical thinking, its focus on experience, its openness to pluralism, and its inspirational role for a variety of disciplines in delimiting their cognitive boundaries. Some of the most important conclusions are: a) apophaticism played an important role in the early days of Christianity in polemics against both pagan cults and magical tendencies; b) already in ancient Greece apophaticism influenced the search not only for symbolic interpretations of Homer’s poems but also for religious experience; c) the limits of cognition discovered by theology are becoming a contemporary experience of other sciences (mathematics, physics).

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护语主义的积极面:绪论

文章综合介绍了避语主义的积极方面。它讨论了它的辩护作用，它在抵御魔幻思维方面的重要性，它对经验的关注，它对多元主义的开放，以及它对各种学科划定认知界限的鼓舞作用。一些最重要的结论是:a)护教主义在基督教早期反对异教和魔法倾向的辩论中发挥了重要作用;b)早在古希腊，避教主义不仅影响了对荷马诗歌的象征性解释的探索，也影响了对宗教经验的探索;C)神学发现的认知极限正在成为其他科学(数学、物理)的当代经验。

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Verbum Vitae Arts and Humanities-Religious Studies

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0.70

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Published since 2002, "Verbum Vitae" is issued biannually by the Institute of Biblical Studies of the Faculty of Theology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. Each issue of the journal includes scholarly articles dedicated to a specific biblical theme and presented in three sections: (I) Old Testament, (II) New Testament, and (III) Patristics and the Life of the Church. The final "Life of the Church" perspective tries to broaden out each issue''s given topic into its multiple connections and implications, mostly dogmatic, moral, pastoral, liturgical, or sociological. The forth section of the journal always consists of reviews of recently published monographs and collections on biblical themes. Because of the journal''s interdisciplinary character, it seeks to include among the contributors not only biblical scholars but also theologians of various specializations.