Fleshless idealism and word incarnate : a re-examination of eastern orthodox apophaticism on the heels of contemporary philosophical immanentism
Part of : Θεολογία : τριμηνιαία έκδοση της Ιεράς Συνόδου της Εκκλησίας της Ελλάδος ; Vol.73, No.2, 2002, pages 457-515
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This is an expanded version of what was originally meant as a foreword to the upcoming English publication of Chrestos Yannaras’ book Heidegger and the Areopagite: On the Absence and Ignorance of God (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, ) by the translator. Rather than furnishing an introduction to Yannaras’ thought as such, the following pages aim instead to situate Eastern Orthodox apophaticism in the contemporary intellectual scene, where linguistic analysis and deconstruction (especially as they have been pioneered by Wittgenstein and Derrida) have had a swaying impact upon the modern critical look at the categories of transcendence and normativity. Despite frequent claims of fundamental resemblances between apophaticism and the aforementioned techniques, I will argue that the former perspective reflects a pre-Kantian (which is to say, a pre-modern) worldview, in stark contrast to the latter two, and may thus serve as a sounder guide to theological claims, devoid as it is of the overbearing immanentism characteristic of the philosophies shaped after the so-called «linguistic turn».
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