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HoP 105 - Naming the Nameless - the Pseudo-Dionysius

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Negative Theology Trumps Positive Theology, and the Highest Knowledge of God Is a Kind of Ignorance

In the end, negative theology trumps positive theology. The highest knowledge of God is a sort of ignorance or unknowing. Maximus Confessor could reasonably be counted as the last great philosophical theologian of late antiquity. Next time we are going to tiptoe up to the brink of the medieval Byzantine world.

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