Speaking the Incomprehensible God
Subtitle: Thomas Aquinas on the Interplay of Positive and Negative Theology
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780813213675
Subjects: Christian theology; Philosophy of religion; Philosophy; God (Christianity); Christianity - Theology - Catholic; Religion - Classic Works; Religion - Catholicism; Middle Ages, 600-1500; Religion; Knowledge, Theory of (Religion); History of doctrines; Christian Theology - Catholic; Christian Theology - General; Christianity - Catholicism; Thomas,; Christianity - Catholic; 1225?-1274; Aquinas, Saint,; God; Knowableness
First sentence: Since Aquinas' chief source for his understanding of negative theology and God's incomprehensibility in the Christian tradition is indisputably Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite-with John Damascene playing a supporting role-and since these two writers, as well as the earlier authors that paved the way for them, both Christian and non-Christian, come largely from the Hellenistic world on the border between East and West, it is important to become familiar with the terminology and traits of that world's understanding of God's incomprehensibility and negative theology.