Sentences with word «negativa»

If we interpret the biblical imagery by negating its specific content (it's not this, not that...)-- what theologians call the [i] via negativa [/ i]-- what is left of it?

He simply uses the biblical language to [i] shut down the discussion [/ i] of the [i] via negativa [/ i], which opens the door to his own neo-Aristotelian analysis.

For Altizer and Hamilton were on the verge of something powerful — the introduction of the via negativa into the Protestant consciousness and into an American culture that is terrified by the mystic.

The Christian Scholastics, concluding that God can not be defined positively, tried the way of negation (Via negativa), seeing God as that which negates attributes.

It does not involve any of the esoteric, theosophical or via negativa ways of knowing.

The famous theologica negativa, so far as it was or is merely negative, was wrong all through, or not wrong at all.13 Thomas says it is not wrong at all; I say this is a more nearly logical position than that it is wrong here and there.

For example, here is a list of things Taleb counts as constituents of true wealth that are all about subtracting things (via negativa) from life than adding --

you appear to claim some sort of via negativa (we just don't / can't know)-- but then you won't live in light of your supposed knowledge.

As our inquiries proceed analogically, they are both enriched and disciplined by an awareness of what Eastern Orthodoxy calls the «apophatic» and in Western thought is known as the via negativa.

Here and elsewhere, the pope employs the via negativa — the way of knowing by what we do not know.

My learning has been partially the result of a via negativa, recognizing not only the absence of mutuality and justice but an active opposition to it in the doctrines of selfishness and domination incarnate in Reagan - Bush.

I know you rejoice in the question mark, NP, but really... i'd caution against teaching your via negativa, via a Jesus - ignoria

I believe that both are sanctifying and that God is bigger than out intellectual and existential trifles; the via negativa is most beautifully seen in this, redemptive spirit.

The via negativa is a method of un-naming God, of saying «this God is not God.»

(For further analysis of the difference between the via negativa of much of classical mysticism and the second type, called by Rufus M. Jones «affirmation mysticism,» see Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism; J. B. Pratt, The Religious Consciousness, chs.

The via negativa.

In other words, his perfection does not lie in pure attributes derived from the via negativa, but in those attributes derived through the via eminentia.

You have managed to disallow two of the most fundamental kinds of Christian theological discourse: the via analogica and the via negativa.

They can teach us about the renewed importance of an apophatic spirituality, with its recovery of the via negativa, its attention to renunciation, and its emphasis on the importance of big drawn beyond ourselves into the incomprehensible greatness of God.

Before you rush out the door to do heavy resistance training, in a fasted state, inside a cyrochamber, while holding your breath, it would be better to first practice via negativa.