Traces of Negative Theology in the Hebrew Bible

IF 0.1 4区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Anne Schellenberg
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Abstract

Despite its general ease in making affirmative statements about God, the Hebrew Bible also contains texts and traditions that can be regarded as containing traces of negative theology. Most important in this regard are the prohibition of images, the statement “I am who I am” (Ex 3:13), the narration about Moses only being allowed to see YHWH from behind (Ex 33), the story of Elijah at Mount Horeb and God’s unconventional theophany (1 Kgs 19), the tradition of YHWH’s incomparability, reflections on the human incapacity to discern God, and the juxtaposition of different metaphors about God. None of these texts and traditions deny the possibility of affirmative statements about God. However, they point to the inadequacy of affirmative statements about God and/or the incapacity of humans to fully understand God – traces of negative theology.
否定神学在希伯来圣经中的踪迹
尽管希伯来圣经在对上帝做出肯定的陈述方面很容易,但它也包含一些文本和传统,可以被视为包含消极神学的痕迹。在这方面最重要的是对图像的禁止,“我是我是谁”的声明(出3:13),关于摩西只能从后面看到耶和华的叙述(出33),以利亚在何烈山的故事和上帝不寻常的显灵(列王纪上19),耶和华不可比拟的传统,对人类无法辨别上帝的反思,以及对上帝的不同隐喻的并列。这些文本和传统都不否认关于上帝的肯定陈述的可能性。然而,他们指出关于上帝的肯定陈述的不足和/或人类没有能力完全理解上帝——消极神学的痕迹。
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期刊介绍: La Revue Philosophique de Louvain, fondée en 1894 par Désiré Mercier sous le titre de Revue Néoscolastique, est publiée par l’Institut Supérieur de Philosophie de l’Université Catholique de Louvain. La revue s’intéresse au mouvement philosophique international dans toute son ampleur. Organe de recherche et de discussion par ses articles; organe de documentation et de critique par ses bulletins, ses comptes rendus et ses notices bibliographiques; organe d’information par ses chroniques diverses, la Revue Philosophique de Louvain veut être un instrument de travail aussi sûr et aussi complet que possible dans le domaine de la philosophie.
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