A Positive Side to Apophaticism: Prolegomena

dc.contributor.author	Gilski, Marek
dc.date.accessioned	2023-11-05T21:39:38Z
dc.date.available	2023-11-05T21:39:38Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description.abstract	The article synthetically presents positive aspects of apophaticism. It discusses its apologetic role, its importance in defending against magical thinking, its focus on experience, its openness to pluralism, and its inspirational role for a variety of disciplines in delimiting their cognitive boundaries. Some of the most important conclusions are: a) apophaticism played an important role in the early days of Christianity in polemics against both pagan cults and magical tendencies; b) already in ancient Greece apophaticism influenced the search not only for symbolic interpretations of Homer’s poems but also for religious experience; c) the limits of cognition discovered by theology are becoming a contemporary experience of other sciences (mathematics, physics).
dc.identifier.citation	"Verbum Vitae", 2023, T. 41, nr 3, s. 465-482
dc.identifier.doi	10.31743/vv.16458
dc.identifier.issn	1644-8561
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/5974
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo KUL
dc.rights	Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	apophaticism
dc.subject	apology
dc.subject	religious experience
dc.subject	magic
dc.subject	pluralism
dc.subject	limitative theorems
dc.title	A Positive Side to Apophaticism: Prolegomena
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/other