Preaching as Protest against the Apophatic Silencing of God’s People

Throughout church history, there have been those who stressed the limits of our ability to speak with confidence about God and extolled the nobility of silence in the face of God’s ineffability. Dionysius the Areopagite famously asserted, “With regard to the divine, negations are true, whereas affir...

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Main Author: Willimon, Will (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2024
In: Religions
Year: 2024, Volume: 15, Issue: 2
Further subjects:B THE TRINITY
B Homiletics
B Karl Barth
B Preaching
B Christian
B Apophatic
B Chalcedon
B Negative Theology
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