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Theologia Negativa: The History and Meaning of Negative Theology
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Theologia Negativa: 부정신학의 역사와 의미

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동아대학교 석당학술원 석당논총 석당논총 제45호 KCI Accredited Journals
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2009.1
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33 - 71 (39page)

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Theologia Negativa: The History and Meaning of Negative Theology
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In this article, I have explored firstly a long tradition of the negative theology in the history of the western and byzantine thoughts, then the exact meaning of it, and lastly the relationship of it with christian theology. Generally speaking, there are three forms in the christian theology: theologia revelata, theologia naturale, and theologia negativa. While the first two forms are kataphatic or affirmative theologies, the last one is called as apophatic theology, in the sense that it rejects possibilities of human knowledge and expressions totally to the absolute and transcendent God. The original form of the negative theology had been found in the thoughts of neoplatonic philosophers as Plotinus and Proclus, but we meet a christian transformation of it in the works of Pseudo- Dionysius besides Cappadocian Fathers in the later antiquity. According to Pseudo-Dionysius, the essence and attributes of God can never known with the limited human thinking and never expressed with the imperfect human language. God transcends every predicative and can be reached only in the ‘darkness of unknowing’ The negative theology came down continually from Cappadocian Fathers to Palamas of 14th century in the Byzantine theology and through Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart to Seuse and Nicolaus Cusanus in the western tradition. Negative Theology intends to ensure the infiniteness and absoluteness of God by describing not what God is, but what God is not. It doesn't come to a halt at impossibilities of naming and cognition of God, goes further to indicate a mystical way to see God intuitively and to be unified with him(unio mystica). Christianity stands basically for a kataphatic theology in which we can name and know God only at basis of his self-revelation, Holy Scripture. However, such a cognition of God is not perfect and limited to the extent of divine self-revelation, so that our theology must be called theologia viatorum.

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