From Word to Silence, 2. The Way of Negation, Christian and Greek
Chapter VIII. Arian negative theology: Aetius and Eunomius
Contents
- 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
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[Chapter Contents]: Aetius and the temporalists, 128; thesis 4 and incomparability, 129; theses 12, 16 and ingeneracy, 130; privation and negation, 131; theses 20, 24, 132; Aetius on names, 133; Eunomius and ingeneracy, 134; Eunomius, negation and privation, 137; Gregory's critique on privation, 141; Danielou on Eunomius, 146; Eunomius and Gregory on names and being, 147; the meaning of ---- 151; Eunomius and Gregory on analogy, 153; names as beings, 154; ingeneracy and negative theology, 157.
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Chapter VIII. Arian negative theology: Aetius and Eunomius from the book:
Mortley, Raoul (1986) From Word to Silence, II. The way of negation, Christian and Greek. (Theophaneia Bd 31), Hanstein : Bonn.