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Flashcards by Chloe Osei, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Chloe Osei
almost 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Analogy of being - Theologian | Aquinas: We can talk to God in a meaningful way because there is a relationship between the creator and the created |
| Analogy of being | God creates a person and puts in goodness. This is how we can talk about God because we know attributes because he puts them within the created |
| What is Negative theology? | Tries to ascend to God and tries to do so by removing that which God is not including through language Ultimately God is beyond all language, words limit him - beyond good and light |
| Negative Theology (Aquinas) | "We do not know what kind of being God is". Even though there is a relationship between the creator and the created, he doesn't go far enough as he presupposes God is a being |
| What are Pseudo Dionysius (Three steps to mystical theology)? | 1) Assertion that 'God is light' is an affirmation 2) The assertion that 'God is darkness' is a negation 3) The assertion that 'God is a dazzling darkness is a negation of the negation (paradox) Apophasis is beyond affirmation and denial |
| Non Rational (mystical Theology) | Takes us beyond knowing Unknows this distinction - Brings us closer to an understanding of God |
| What is Apophasis? | Beyond affirmation and denial There is a need to unknow what you think you know about God Deeper knowledge of God is found in silence |
| Grasping God Miester Eckhart | Grapsing God before he been clothed with names (much like the bride in the bridal chamber) Names distract from the trye essence of God. |
| God as Nothing | An excess of light which leads to darkness - nothing. The nothing is described as God when Paul in acts 9 is blinded by light "with open eyes he say nothing" |
| What is creation ex deo? | Means it has been created from God, that which is breathed out of God |
| What is the uncreated ground of the soul? | This leaves God and its destiny is to return to God. When it returns it must remove all it has embodied (the I or the ego) |
| What is the ground soul? | Its something within the human which is part of God and is uncreated, it gies huamans the ability to be united with God deep within the soul |
| What can be united with God? | The human and divine intellects cannot be united with God the human will can be united with God. |
| Miester Eckhart quote about the soul | "the soul's destiny is to return to the Godhead from wence it came" |
| What is Averroism? | - It is a heresy that Eckhart and Aquinas are accused of and ultimately condemned. Its the belief that there is one intellectual soul in which all are shared - Two barking dogs Michael Demkovich |
| Who wrote re-integrating liturgy and life through mystical theology? | Deborah Gweke |
| What does she argue in this journal | God empties himself into humanity and taken on sin so that humanity may be filled with him - emptying to reach a union with God. |
| What else is the aim of this journal | To reintergrate the use of mystical theology in everyday spiritual life as it allows for the opportunity to be unified with God. |
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