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Muslim theology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This theology claims that the Qur'an was revealed by Allah to the Prophet Muhammad after Allah commissioned him to be the final and last prophet. Muslim theology is the theology that derived from the Qur'an and the Prophetic traditions. Theology proper refers to the nature of God or Allah such as his essence and attributes and his relation with humans and other created beings, the relationship between the creator and the created. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muslim_theology   (630 words)

Negative theology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The apophatic tradition is often allied with or expressed in tandem with the approach of mysticism, which focuses on a spontaneous or cultivated individual experience of the divine reality beyond the realm of ordinary perception, an experience often unmediated by the structures of traditional organized religion. In this sense, negative theology is not a denial. Adherents of the apophatic tradition hold that God is beyond the limits of what humans can understand, and that one should not seek God by means of intellectual understanding, but through a direct experience of the love (in Western Christianity) or the Energies (in Eastern Christianity) of God. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apophatic_theology   (2519 words)

Theology Theology is literally the study of God (Greek θεος, theos, "God", + λογος, logos, "study"). The term theology originated in Christianity, but by it can also be used to refer to the study of the beliefs of other religions. Theology assumes the truth of at least some religious beliefs and therefore can be distinguished from the philosophy of religion, which does not presume the truth of any religious beliefs. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/Theology.html   (390 words)

Qwika - similar:Theology Negative theology - also known as the Via Negativa (Latin for "Negative Way") and Apophatic theology - is a theology that attempts to describe God by negation, to speak of God only in terms of what may be said about God and to avoid what may not be said. Narrative theology was a late 20th century theological development which supported the idea that the Church's use of the Bible should focus on a narrative presentation of the faith, rather than on the development of a systematic theology. Feminist theology is a movement, generally in the Western religious traditions (mostly Christianity and Judaism), to reconsider the traditions, practices, scriptures, and theologies of those religions from a feminist perspective. www.qwika.com /rels/Theology   (1300 words)

Deconstruction: Derrida, Theology and St John of the Cross Apophatic theology, like poststructural notions of text, demonstrates a radical skepticism regarding metaphor, and it holds that nay truth claims relying on metaphor as a vehicle are, at best, provisional. Zornado adds: "Apophatic thought provides a kind of key to those moments of silence, not that we might fill them in but rather that we might more fully experience the gaps between vehicle and tenor, between signifier and signified, as a silence related to that which contemplative monks desire" (1992:119). Zornado points out important differences between apophatic theology and deconstruction: apophatic theology is not an escape from orthodoxy (and thus from truth and meaning expressed in sign), and it is firmly grounded in Christ crucified (a recognition deconstruction does/can not share) (see Zornado 1991:122). www.geocities.com /chealy5/Deconstruction.htm   (2833 words)

Negative theology - Theopedia Negative theology, also known as Apophatic theology, is a theological approach that describes God by negation, speaking of God only in terms of what He is not (apophasis) rather than presuming to describe what God is. Even though negative theology essentially rejects theological understanding as a path to God, some have sought to make it into an intellectual exercise, by describing God only in terms of what he is not. Exemplars of negative theology such as the Cappadocian Fathers of the 4th century said that they believed in God, but they did not believe that God exists. www.theopedia.com /Apophatic_theology   (711 words)

Negative theology Summary One of the first to articulate the theology in Christianity was St Paul whose reference to the Unknown God in the book of Acts (Acts 17:23) is the foundation of works such as that of Pseudo Dionysius. Apophatic statements are crucial to much theology in Orthodox Christianity. Buddhism is most extensive of its use of Negative theology, and Buddhist thought concerning Nirvana, which is also unconfined to time, space, or even existence and non-existence. www.bookrags.com /Negative_theology   (3944 words)

Apophatic In most cases the kataphatic way will predominate, for as we shall see, there are elements of the apophatic approach that are deeply threatening from both psychological and spiritual standpoints. It should also be noted that most people who wind up with an apophatic orientation have passed through a number of kataphatic experiences or "phases" on their way. Negative theology (sometimes called the apophatic tradition) means opening to the mystery of the divine presence within us which transcends the capacity of every human faculty. www.orednet.org /~jflory/apophatic.htm   (757 words)

Negative Theology and Theological Hermeneutics Perhaps one could say that the strong apophatic tendencies apparent in both the religious revival in contemporary European society and the cultural apophasis constitute the socio-cultural basis for this renewed philosophical interest in religious apophatic thinking patterns. At least this is the challenge put forward by these apophatical trends to theology itself, as it were, for internal use, but perhaps such a reflection may also give some broader hints for a cultural and philosophical coping with the particularity of religious truth claims. In this perspective, negative theology assumes a role very different from the one demonstrated in the aforementioned thinkers: its aim is no longer to take leave from the narrativity of religious discourse, but rather to raise one’s awareness of this narrativity to the utmost. www.philosophyandscripture.org /Issue3-2/Boeve/Boeve2.html   (7204 words)

Apophatic Theology in the Classical World Speaking of ineffable subjects "apophatically," by means of denial, or "peripatetically," by (used in this context) means of linguistically "walking around" the subject in question without substantially defining it, are universal phenomena in the history of the world's religions. Part of the reason that the term `apophatic' is pressed into service, says historian of Christianity Jaroslav Pelikan, is because "speaking about a negative theology sounds--how should one put it?--too negative." (Pelikan 1988, 6) Apophatic theology is not to be understood as a form of skepticism or, far less, atheism. Apophatic theology might at first glance seem to be incompatible with the most affirmative form of cataphasis, faith. bahai-library.com /personal/jw/my.papers/apophatic.html   (8352 words)

Theology - Deistpedia, the Deist Encyclopedia Although Islam is often considered to lack a "Theology" as in "Christianity" there were many attempts to frame Islamic ideas within Greek thought, especially during the early abbassids and the reign of the caliph al-mamun. As study of theology in these countries includes a strong ("Christian") humanist content, graduates of theology who do not wish to embark on clerical career may find work also in marketing, business or administration, although this is frowned upon by many. Vaishnava Theology is the theological discourse concerning the Hindu deity Vishnu and/or one of His avatar. www.templeofreason.org /test7/Theology.htm   (3539 words)

Theology definition and kinds of Theology Theology is a Greek word, theos, "God", + logos, "rational discourse", "knowledge", "study", "science", so, literally, Theology is the science of God, as Biology is the science of life. Systematic Theology (or doctrinal theology) - focused on the attempt to arrange and interpret the ideas current in the religion. Holocaust theology (In response to the horrors of the Holocaust, many theologians (especially Jewish theologians) were prompted to take a harder look in terms of issues around theodicy; the theological works that were created as a response to the Holocaust have been termed Holocaust theology.). biblia.com /theology/theology.htm   (1478 words)

Touchstone Archives: Mystical Theology & the Sublimation of Gender   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) When mystical theology thinks to slip its moorings in creation, when kataphatic theology—the theology of icon, Scripture, confession and creed—is replaced by an apophatic theology that claims to leave it behind, something is amiss. Positive theology is fulfilled (in the same sense that the gospel fulfills the law), not exterminated, in the negative. Utterances of a professedly apophatic theology should be treated with profound suspicion, bearing intense scrutiny for Gnostic elements before they are “passed” for Christian use. www.touchstonemag.com /archives/article.php?id=06-02-002-e   (1823 words)

Post-Atheism We are not in a position to pursue all the lines of development of the apophatic theological tradition, but they very clearly lead us to the Russian Nihilism of the 19th century and the Soviet atheism of the twentieth, in which negative theology becomes the negation of theism itself. That which serves to purify faith in apophatic theology becomes the negation of faith in atheism, and it is difficult to define logically where extreme apophaticism ends and nihilism and atheism begin. The New Middle Ages are cultivating the theology of alienation in new modes of the impersonal. www.emory.edu /INTELNET/fi.postatheism.html   (16065 words)

Gregory of Nyssa - OrthodoxWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) Gregory was raised in a very pious (and large) Christian family of ten children; his grandmother Macrina the Elder, his mother Emily, his father Basil the Elder, his sisters Macrina the Younger and Theosebia, and his brothers Basil the Great and Peter of Sebaste have all been recognized as saints. The first is his doctrine of the Trinity, a development of the theology of Basil and their mutual friend Gregory Nazianzus. He thus presents a hopeful alternative to those theologies, such as that of Augustine, which state that at least some, of necessity, will be eternally condemned to hell. orthodoxwiki.org /Gregory_of_Nyssa   (1422 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) Affirmative or cataphatic theology, admitting that we must use words to speak of God, praises him while acknowledging any name is inappropriate and that it cannot express what he is in himself, only an approximation by which humanity may invoke him. Description in the apophatic text involves the paradoxical conjunction of affirmation and denial, so that no phrase is accorded any value; thus Eckhart disrupts the flow of sense with oxymorons such as 'the highest point of the elevation lies in the deep ground of humility'. Derrida claims that negative theology, however far it goes in refusing to allow closure, relies on an ultimate affirmation (that God is) which nullifies all its previous dynamic of negation, whereas deconstruction goes beyond the dialectic of essence and presence, demonstrating the endless generation of names and concepts which are only ever nominal effects. www.op.org /eckhart/Essay.html   (4957 words)

Prolegomena to a Bahá'í Theology Bahá'í theology is, moreover, based in faith rooted in the person of Bahá'u'lláh and his divine revelation, has a strong metaphysical bias, eschews dogmatism, and welcomes diversity. Bahá'í theology cannot be dogmatic in the normal sense of the word, that is, a final and duly perceived infallible doctrine imposed upon the believers by the institutions of religion. Whereas, Bahá'í theology is a more inclusive term, one that includes concepts that have an impact not just on sacred concerns but on secular ones as well, in such areas as education and moral development, ecological concerns, economics, women's issues, the treatment of minorities, Third World development, and international law. www.bahai-studies.ca /archives/jbs/jbs.5-1.mclean.html   (16207 words)

Theology Today - Vol 51, No. 3 - October 1994 - BOOK REVIEW - Believing Three Ways in One God: A Reading of the ... Lash has been strongly influenced by apophatic approaches to theology and so his exposition is at times opaque and circuitous. At times, apophatic theology is helpful, corrective, and appropriately open to mystery. There is much in these chapters on the articles of the creed that may be helpful for preaching and teaching the creed. theologytoday.ptsem.edu /oct1994/v51-3-bookreview06.htm   (637 words)

Theology Links Biblical Theology - focused on the investigation and interpretation of a religions' scriptures, Systematic Theology (or doctrinal theology, or dogmatic theology) - focused on the attempt to arrange and interpret the ideas current in the religion. Ascetical theology, biotheology, creationism, heresy, history of theology, liberal theology, liberation theology, metaphysics, natural theology, neurotheology, odium theologicum, philosophy of religion, process theology, propitiation, religion, scholasticism, systematic theology biblia.com /theology/links.htm   (542 words)

Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on theology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) Theology always bears the marks of the context in which it is produced. Marxism stimulated the significant rise of Liberation Theology which can be interpreted as a rejection of Academic Theology that fails to challenge the establishment and help the poor. Exegetical Theology: a) Biblical Studies (analysis of the contents of Scripture); b) Biblical Introduction (inquiry into the origins of the Bible); c) Canonics (inquiry into how the different books of the Bible came to be collected together); d) Biblical Theology (inquiry into how divine revelation progressed over the course of the Bible). www.blinkbits.com /blinks/theology   (4411 words)

Journal of Religion and Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) Nesteruk argues that special factors notable in Augustinian theology permitted science to develop in an independent and unhampered intellectual domain as the “handmaiden of theology.” This freedom permitted a unique development of science, but also rendered it separate from theology. In chapter three he reviews key concepts of Orthodox thought, including the possibility of an economic, dogmatic theology in support of a mystical theology, and the existence of natural thought as a monistic subdomain within a dualistic theology. The apophatic opposition is now available for prayer and meditation, deepening an individual’s quest for mystical understanding of God. moses.creighton.edu /jrs/2005/2005-r8.html   (1115 words)

St Gregory Palamas: Knowledge, Prayer & Vision One of the first objections raised against St Gregory Palamas’ theology was brought forth by Barlaam of Calabria, and dealt specifically with the issue of knowledge. This is an essential point in Gregory’s theology, for it stresses the union of differing characteristics of God’s being: essence and energy are two aspects of His nature, yet they are not wholly disparate or foreign to one another. Once can see in Palamas’ theology a holistic view of man and a dynamic conception of faith, which are intimately bound up in a spirituality of sanctification and transfiguration that is wholly in line with the patristic tradition in which the saint lived and thought. www.monachos.net /patristics/palamas_theology.shtml   (2765 words)

Form & Fragment: The Recovery of the Hidden and Incomprehensible God by David Tracy Christian theology today, informed by its own needs and its own classical fragmentary forms, especially the highly suggestive fragmenting forms of apocalyptic and apophatic, can be greatly aided by the work on fragments not only of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche but also of the great Jewish thinker Franz Rosenzweig. That theory I have argued elsewhere, was first developed in United States theology by the remarkable shift in African American theology from European holistic and sometimes, it must be admitted, totalizing categories, to the category 'fragments' explosive in the African-American spirituals, the blues and the slave narratives. In the apophatic case, our best positive and negative namings of God are also broken in terms of predication and may be released with Dionysius and the liturgical and contemplative traditions into this unitive experience of God as the Incomprehensible one—indeed, the Incomprehensible Good. www.ctinquiry.org /publications/reflections_volume_3/tracy.htm   (8088 words)

basic.theology.forums > Apophatic Theology Apophatic theology sees God as wholly away from mankind and indescribable in human terms. Started by two college roommates with a few hand-me-down theology books. Now a fun site to find out whether you're orthodox or heretical. www.basictheology.com /definitions/Apophatic_Theology   (93 words)

Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology The web would look nicer (and you would be happier) if you upgraded to IE 5+, Netscape 6+, Opera 7+, etc. The Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology seeks to promote inquiry at the intersection of philosophy and theology, through the study of phenomenology, deconstruction, feminism, Radical Orthodoxy, and related fields. Copyright © 2005 by The Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology. www.scptonline.org   (139 words)

basic.theology.forums > Apophatic Theology, Aseity, Cataphatic Theology, Covenant, Ichthus, Impeccability The Doctrine of the Person of Christ in the Early Church, The Doctrine of the Trinity in the Early Church, The Five Warning Passages in Hebrews, Open Theism, Historical Theology Adoptionism, Apollinarianism, Docetism, The Doctrine of the Trinity in the Early Church, Ebionism, Eutycianism, Illustrated Trinitarianism, Modalism, Sabellianism www.basictheology.com /definitions   (149 words)

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