[lit-ideas] Re: Kataphatic, Negative and Apophatic Theology

From: Scribe1865@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 00:28:16 EDT

In a message dated 8/6/2004 12:14:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Chris Bruce wrote:
"there is 'negative theology' (about which I would appreciate someone
posting a few words).
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Before reading Phil's excellent post more closely, I would add words about 
Walter Benjamin's famous use of "negative theology" to characterize 
aestheticism 
as a failed project. The negative theology that is aestheticism, according to 
B, encouraged an "aura" in art (which today one can still see people 
responding to in museums). Maybe there is a meta-negative theology, contra 
Wallace 
Stevens, that examines the substitution of what art is not for what faith is 
not? 


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[lit-ideas] Re: Kataphatic, Negative and Apophatic Theology

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