TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knepper,Timothy D.
TI  - Negating negation: against the apophatic abandonment of the Dionysian Corpus 
SN  - 9780227902653
AV  - BR65.D66 
U1  - 230.14092 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - James Clarke
KW  - Pseudo-Dionysius,
KW  - Negative theology
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / General
KW  - Mysticism
KW  - Neoplatonism
KW  - Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Religious
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Contents; Tables; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Divine Names Are Not Names; Chapter 2. Negation Does Not Negate; Chapter 3. Ranks Are Not Bypassed; Rites Are Not Negated; Chapter 4. The Ineffable God Is Not Ineffable; Conclusion; Bibliography; Back Cover
N2  - Negating Negation'' critically examines key concepts in the corpus of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite: divine names and perceptible symbols; removal and negation; hierarchy and hierurgy; ineffability and incomprehensibility. In each case it argues that the Dionysian corpus does not negate all things of an absolutely ineffable God; rather, it negates few things of a God that is effable in important ways. Dionysian divine names are not inadequate metaphors or impotent attributes but transcendent divine causes. Divine names are not therefore flatly negated of God but removed as ordinary propertie
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