Sentences with phrase «with apophatic»

If mysticism loses touch with sacramental symbols, with apophatic patience, and with the needs of the social world, it becomes a form of religious escapism.

But Jesus tempers such sacramentalism, in turn, with an apophatic posture of patience.

Thus it acknowledges with the apophatic tradition that we really do not know the inner being of divine reality; the hints and clues we have of the way things are, whether we call them religious experiences, revelation, or whatever, are too fragile, too little (and often too negative) for heavy metaphysical claims.

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Dialogue with Buddhists has forced me to rethink theologically the more radically apophatic mystics of the tradition, especially Meister Eckhart.

He demonstrates that an impatience born of compassion does not conflict with, but actually supports, the apophatic posture of patience and concern for breadth essential to all authentic religion and hope.

The Buddha's renunciation of selfish craving together with his silence about theological issues offers yet another, what we shall call the apophatic (or silent).

Turner clearly knows his Marx, and he makes a compelling case that until Christian theology recovers the insights of the apophatic tradition, with its exacting strictures on the ways we too easily talk about God, it will be justly subject to critiques like Marx's.

Can a man committed to the wordless apophatic way and a forgetting of self be preoccupied with recording — and publishing — every thought and act?

It would seem that our longing for the future is genuine hope rather than mere wishing, only if, along with its images of the future, it also includes mystical, apophatic, and active elements that keep these images from being frozen into absolutes.

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.

The apophatic tradition is associated not only with Christian mystics whom Reinhardt read in depth, such as Meister Eckhart and St. John of the Cross, but also with Asian texts that he knew, such as the Hindu Upanishads and the Tao te ching.