Negating Negation: Against the Apophatic Abandonment of the Dionysian Corpus by

Description: Negating Negation by Timothy D. Knepper About the Contributor(s): Timothy Knepper is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Drake University, where he chairs the Department of Philosophy and Religion and directs The Comparison Project. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 properties to be revealed as divine causes. The hierurgical rituals and hierarchical ranks of the church are also not negated or bypassed but serve as the necessary means of return to God. This Dionysian God is therefore not absolutely unknowable and ineffable but extraordinarily knowable and sayable as scripturally revealed and hierarchically conveyed. Negating Negation concludes that since the Dionysian corpus does not abandon all things to apophasis, it cannot be called to testify on behalf of (post)modern projects in religious pluralism and anti-ontotheology. Quite the contrary, the Dionysian corpus gives reason for suspicion of such projects, especially when they relativize or metaphorize religious belief and practice in the name of absolute ineffability. Author Biography Timothy Knepper is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Drake University, where he chairs the Department of Philosophy and Religion and directs The Comparison Project. Review ""Knepper sweeps away the assumption that Dionysian metaphysics is fundamentally apophatic. He offers an intriguing look at the positive dimensions of divine names in particular, and at the Dionysian cosmos, as a whole. In doing so, he changes the impact Dionysius has on a philosophical understanding of God."" --Sarah Wear, Associate Professor of Classics, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Pennsylvania ""At last, a book about Dionysius that ends the myth of an alternative negative theology and avoids anachronistic construals in terms of either linguistic analysis or pure phenemenology. Instead, we are presented with the full-blown strange world of ancient oriental Christianity where names are angels and liturgical action lies beyond either affirmation or negation. Yet it was just this world that later resonated in the medieval West, and can still resonate with us today, if we are prepared to be genuinely subverted."" --John Milbank, Research Professor of Religion, Politics, and Ethics, University of Nottingham Review Quote "Knepper sweeps away the assumption that Dionysian metaphysics is fundamentally apophatic. He offers an intriguing look at the positive dimensions of divine names in particular, and at the Dionysian cosmos, as a whole. In doing so, he changes the impact Dionysius has on a philosophical understanding of God." --Sarah Wear, Associate Professor of Classics, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Pennsylvania "At last, a book about Dionysius that ends the myth of an alternative negative theology and avoids anachronistic construals in terms of either linguistic analysis or pure phenemenology. Instead, we are presented with the full-blown strange world of ancient oriental Christianity where names are angels and liturgical action lies beyond either affirmation or negation. Yet it was just this world that later resonated in the medieval West, and can still resonate with us today, if we are prepared to be genuinely subverted." --John Milbank, Research Professor of Religion, Politics, and Ethics, University of Nottingham Details ISBN1625642504 Author Timothy D. Knepper Short Title NEGATING NEGATION Language English ISBN-10 1625642504 ISBN-13 9781625642509 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-12-20 Subtitle Against the Apophatic Abandonment of the Dionysian Corpus Imprint Wipf & Stock Publishers Place of Publication Eugene Country of Publication United States Pages 151 DEWEY 210 Illustrations Illustrations, black and white UK Release Date 2013-12-20 AU Release Date 2013-12-20 NZ Release Date 2013-12-20 US Release Date 2013-12-20 Publisher Wipf & Stock Publishers Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:98314132;

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