Eckhart's Apophatic Theology - Vladimir Lossky

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Résumé :
Vladimir Lossky's posthumously published masterwork is now made available in English for the first time. Eckhart's Negative Theology is the culmination of a long process, whereby the renowned Orthodox philosopher and theologian embraced the ways of thinking of a thirteenth-century German monk and mystic. While refusing to simplify Eckhart's theology to a system or single motif, Lossky explores in detail the various ramifications of Eckhart's insistence on the ineffability of God. Is God to be regarded as 'being', or the 'One', or 'Intellect'? Does God's pure expression of each of these preclude the others? Framed by six key statements about God's essence, Lossky lays out Eckhart's approach to this dilemma. His understanding of the problem, guided by careful engagement with a multitude of sources, is exhaustive. Scholars will welcome this eagerly-anticipated translation....

Biographie:
Vladimir Lossky (1903-58) was an influential Eastern Orthodox theologian, and wrote the original work in French. Born in Germany, he grew up in St Petersburg, but spent most of his adult life in exile in Paris, where he taught dogmatic theology at the St Dionysus Institute in Paris and the Orthodox Institute of St Irene. Among his best-known works is The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church, also published by James Clarke & Co....

Sommaire:
A Note from the Society Translators Foreword to the English Translation, by Rowan Williams Foreword to the First Edition, by Maurice de Gandillac Preface to the First Edition, by ?tienne Gilson 1 Nomen Innominabile The Search for the Ineffable The Source of the 'Nomen Innominabile' Namelessness and Polynymy Esse Innominable Eckhart and St Thomas The Intimate Presences The Wine of Cana Mystic or Dialectician? Ignorance of God and of Self 2 Nomen Omninominabile Nomen Super Omne Nomen Collatio Esse Upper and Lower Waters The Word without Words Semel Locotus Est Deus, Duo haec Audivi The One - 'The Name above All Names' The First Determination of Being Puritas et Plenitudo Essendi Unum et Omnia Oppositio Nihil Mediationne Entis The Unity of the Universe The Way of Unified Eminence 3.Ego Sum Qui Sum Revelation of the Unique Being Quidditas et Anitas Divine Sufficiency and created Indigence Reduplicatio 'I Live Because I Live' The Object of Metaphysics The Knowledge of Quiddities Quiddity and 'Esse Secundum' The Level of Substantiality Essentia et Esse Two Levels of Essentiality Intelligere et Esse 4.Regio Dissimilitudinis Infinitae Created Dissimilitude, the Intellect and Grace Grace, Glory and Divine Dissimilitude Ascensio Intellectus The Apophasis of Opposition The Opposition between 'Intelligere' and 'Esse' 'Cognitivum Ens' and 'Ens Reale' Intelligible Species and Exemplary Causes Seminal Reasons and the Divine Word Intellectual 'Nihilism' and the 'Uncreatability' of Intellection 5.Splendor in Medio From Assimilation to Unity Opposition and Non-opposition Indistinctio-Distinctio Dissimiltude-Similtudo Rota in Medio Rotae Analogical Causality God Esse Omnium and the Principle of Analogy Analogical Predication and the Doctrine of Being The Analogy of Attribution 'Qui Edunt Me Adhuc Esuriant' A Deo et in Deo 6.Imago in Speculo The Divinity-Form and Divine 'Quo Est' Formal Causality and Divine Exemplarity Being, Life, Intelligence The Theology of the Image and Deifying Transformation Analogy in the 'Transformation into the Same Image' Index...