What an Apophaticist Can Know: Divine Ineffability and the Beatific Vision
For an apophatic theologian, the doctrines of divine ineffability and of the beatific vision seem, on first glance, to contradict each other. If God is beyond knowledge (as we are taught in the doctrine of divine ineffability) how can we come to know Him, fully and completely (as we are taught in th...
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| Type de support: | Numérique/imprimé Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Marquette Univ. Press
[2017]
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Philosophy & theology
Année: 2017, Volume: 29, Numéro: 2, Pages: 205-219 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Dieu
/ Ineffabilité
/ Théologie apophatique
/ Visio beatifica
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion NBC Dieu |
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| Résumé: | For an apophatic theologian, the doctrines of divine ineffability and of the beatific vision seem, on first glance, to contradict each other. If God is beyond knowledge (as we are taught in the doctrine of divine ineffability) how can we come to know Him, fully and completely (as we are taught in the doctrine of the beatific vision)? To resolve this problem, we argue that, if there are at least two qualitatively different kinds of knowledge, namely, propositional knowledge and knowledge of persons, then there are at least two qualitatively different kinds of ineffability, namely, propositional ineffability and what we will call personal ineffability. By postulating that God is propositionally ineffable but personally effable, we argue that the contradictory doctrines of divine ineffability and of the beatific vision can be reconciled. Thus, the apophatic theologian can know nothing God, but they can still come to God, fully and completely. |
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| ISSN: | 0890-2461 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Philosophy & theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/philtheol20178478 |