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Apophatic theology found its most influential expression in works such as those of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor ( Pseudo-Dionysius is quoted by Thomas Aquinas 1, 760 times in his Summa Theologica ).
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Apophatic theology ( from Greek ἀπόφασις from ἀπόφημι – apophēmi, " to deny ")— also known as negative theology or via negativa ( Latin for " negative way ")— is a theology that attempts to describe God, the Divine Good, by negation, to speak only in terms of what may not be said about the perfect goodness that is God.
** Apophatic theology, The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
This is in keeping with the church's use of Apophatic theology, as described by Dionysius the Areopagite and others.
** Apophatic theology – negative theology which seeks to describe God by negation ( e. g., immutable, impassible ).
Apophatic theology often is contrasted with " Cataphatic theology.
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Whereas with rational thought one uses logic to understand, one does the opposite with God ( see also Apophatic theology ).
* Apophatic theology in Buddhism
This Apophatic Theology ( Negative theology ) mode of thinking about God is found throughout Gnosticism, Vedantic Hinduism, Platonic and Aristotelean theology, and Eastern Orthodox theology as well.
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Apophatic movements in Hinduism are visible in the works of Shankara, a philosopher of Advaita Vedanta school of Indian philosophy, and Bhartṛhari, a grammarian.
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Apophatic statements are crucial to much modern theologians in Orthodox Christianity ( see Vladimir Lossky, John Meyendorff, John S. Romanides and Georges Florovsky ).
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It follows, then, provided the possibilities have been exhausted, that the only real alternative is the general viewpoint of the `` left '', which has been represented on the Continent by Fritz Buri and, to some extent at least, is found in much that is significant in American and English theology.
Articles of faith are sets of beliefs usually found in creeds, sometimes numbered, and often beginning with " We believe ...", which attempt to more or less define the fundamental theology of a given religion, and especially in the Christian Church.
Carnegie instead preferred to see things through naturalistic and scientific terms stating, " Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.
* Style → There is a sudden change in style and theology after chapter 40 ; numerous key words and phrases found in one section are not found in the other.
As with most Old Testament interpretations found in the New Testament, Jesus ’ interpretation is primarily “ typological ” ( see Typology ( theology )).
The rational view was recovered during the high Middle Ages, separated from theology during the Renaissance and found its apogee in the Age of Enlightenment.
One well-known example of a bitheistic or duotheistic theology based on gender polarity is found in the neopagan religion of Wicca, which is centered on the worship of a divine couple-the Moon Goddess and the Horned God-who are regarded as lovers.
Ultimately in 1518 he found his way to the University of Wittenberg, where he studied theology.
Feminist theology is a movement found in several religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and New Thought, to reconsider the traditions, practices, scriptures, and theologies of those religions from a feminist perspective.
Calvin developed his theology in his biblical commentaries as well as his sermons and treatises, but the most concise expression of his views is found in his magnum opus, the Institutes of the Christian Religion.
God's decision, on such a view, is an inventive experience, almost precisely equivalent to the unfolding process of historical events ( thinking like this can be found in modern process theology and open theism ).
* Jewish introductions to classical theism, limited theism and process theology can be found in A Question of Faith: An Atheist and a Rabbi Debate the Existence of God ( Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1994, ISBN 1-56821-089-2 ) and The Case for God ( St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1991, ISBN 0-8272-0458-2 ), both written by Rabbi William E. Kaufman.
The first published use of the phrase " retroactive continuity " is found in Elgin Frank Tupper's 1974 book The theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg.
* It is in this last sense, theology as an academic discipline involving rational study of Christian teaching, that the term passed into English in the fourteenth century, though it could also be used in the narrower sense found in Boethius and the Greek patristic authors, to mean rational study of the essential nature of God – a discourse now sometimes called Theology Proper.
As a theology student, Charles Darwin found Paley's arguments compelling.
This led to a public appeal to him to found a community based upon what was called the ' new theology '.
An expression of negative theology is found in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, where Brahman is described as " neti-neti " or " neither this, nor that ".
Further use of apophatic theology is found in the Brahma Sutras, which state:
This Free Grace or non-traditional Calvinist doctrine is found predominantly in " free will " Baptist theology, but also other Protestant churches of the evangelical tradition.
Fundamentalist movements were found in most North American Protestant denominations by 1919, with the attack on modernism in theology launched by the Fundamentalists in the Presbyterian and Baptist churches.
The concept of the developing nation is found, under one term or another, in numerous theoretical systems having diverse orientations — for example, theories of decolonization, liberation theology, Marxism, anti-imperialism, and political economy.
Deriving from earlier varieties of gnosticism, Cathar theology found its most surprising success in the Languedoc and the Cathars were known as Albigensians, either because of an association with the city of Albi, or because the 1176 Church Council which declared the Cathar doctrine heretical was held near Albi.
Much of medieval thought in philosophy and theology can be found in scholastic textual commentary because scholasticism was such a popular method of teaching.
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In the latter year Samuel Hopkins, from whom the Hopkinsian strain of New England theology took its name, asked the Continental Congress to abolish slavery.
Instead, Anglicans have typically appealed to the Book of Common Prayer and its offshoots as a guide to Anglican theology and practice.
The Diocese of Sydney has developed its own small prayer book, called Sunday Services, to supplement the existing prayer book and preserve the original theology, which the Sydney diocese asserts has been changed.
According to Bruce L. Olsen, director of public affairs for the church, " The logo re-emphasizes the official name of the church and the central position of the Savior in its theology.
The Protrepticus is, as its title suggests, an exhortation to the pagans of Greece to adopt Christianity, and within it Clement demonstrates his extensive knowledge of pagan mythology and theology.
: I have convinced myself that even theology has its merits.
In traditional Christian theology, the concept and nature of " divinity " always has its source ultimately from God Himself.
France had its own tradition of religious skepticism and natural theology in the works of Montaigne, Bayle, and Montesquieu.
They can be seen in 19th-century liberal British theology and in the rise of Unitarianism, which adopted many of its beliefs and ideas.
Various elements within the gospel, including the importance of the authority of Peter and the breadth of its basic theology, suggest that the author wrote in Syria or Palestine for a non-Jewish Christian community which had earlier absorbed the influence of pre-Pauline beliefs and then developed them further independent of Paul.
This is because iconography is rooted in the theology of the Incarnation ( Christ being the eikon of God ) which didn't change, though its subsequent clarification within the Church occurred over the period of the first seven Ecumenical Councils.
This did not mean theology in its modern sense, but knowledge of the Bible.
This book chapter discusses the ancient sources which may have been used in the film and its critical take on theology.
" The university of Saumur at the same time had fixed its eyes on him as professor of theology.
From the movement ’ s beginnings, with its roots in Wesleyan theology, Methodism has distinguished itself as a religious movement strongly tied to social issues.
In Mere Christianity, he aims at avoiding controversies to explain fundamental teachings of Christianity, for the sake of those basically educated as well as the intellectuals of his generation, for whom the jargon of formal Christian theology did not retain its original meaning.
The faith incorporates many Old Testament ideas into its theology, and the beliefs of Mormons sometimes parallel those of Judaism and certain elements of Jewish culture.
A. J. M. Wedderburn further argues that resurrection in Ancient Egypt differs from the " very negative features " in Judaeo-Christian tradition, as the Ancient Egyptians conceived of the afterlife as entry into the glorious kingdom of Osiris .< ref >"< span dir =" ltr "> Baptism and resurrection: studies in Pauline theology against its Graeco-Roman background </ span >
Phillips rejects " natural theology " and its evidentialist approach as confused, in favor of a grammatical approach which investigates the meaning of belief in God.
J. M. Thompson, in his 1914 article in The Hibbert Journal ( a quarterly philosophical review ), used it to describe changes in attitudes and beliefs in the critique of religion: " The raison d ' etre of Post-Modernism is to escape from the double-mindedness of Modernism by being thorough in its criticism by extending it to religion as well as theology, to Catholic feeling as well as to Catholic tradition.
J. J. Altizer, for example, maintained boldly by stating, ' Throughout its history Christian theology has been thwarted from reaching its intrinsic goal by its bondage to a transcendent, a sovereign, and an impassive God '.
" Eliade wrote about ' sky and sky gods ' when Christian theology was shaken at its very foundations by the ' death of God ' theology.
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