"Chapter IV. Origen: Christian mysticism without the via negativa" by Raoul Mortley

From Word to Silence, 2. The Way of Negation, Christian and Greek

Chapter IV. Origen: Christian mysticism without the via negativa

Frontismatter, preface, table of contents.
Chapter I. The Middle Platonists, The Mathematicians, and the Gnostics
Chapter II. The First Christian negative theology: Justin and Clement
Chapter III. Plotinus and abstraction
» Chapter IV. Origen: Christian mysticism without the via negativa
Chapter V. The logic of negation; between Plotinus and Proclus
Chapter VI. Proclus and positive negation
Chapter VII. Damascius and Hyperignorance
Chapter VIII. Arian negative theology: Aetius and Eunomius
Chapter IX. Basil and Letter 38: the negative theology of the amateur
Chapter X. Gregory of Nyssa and Eunomius: theology versus philosophy
Chapter XI. Augustine: the importance of meaning and the unimportance of the negative method
Chapter XII. Pseudo-Dionysius: a positive view of language and the via negativa
Chapter XIII. Conclusion
Appendix I.
Appendix II.
Bibliography and Index

From Word to Silence, 2. The Way of Negation, Christian and Greek

This is an electronic version of Chapter IV. Origen: Christian mysticism without the via negativa from the book:

Mortley, Raoul (1986) From Word to Silence, II. The way of negation, Christian and Greek. (Theophaneia Bd 31), Hanstein : Bonn.

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[Chapter Contents]: The silence of Zacharias, 63; silence, speech and concealment, 64; God, language, and being, 65; knowing God, 68; the via negativa, 78; Origen's mystical theology, 84.

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