Chapter XI. Augustine: the importance of meaning and the unimportance of the negative method
Article comments
This is an electronic version of Chapter XI. Augustine: the importance of meaning and the unimportance of the negative method from the book:
Mortley, Raoul (1986) From Word to Silence, II. The way of negation, Christian and Greek. (Theophaneia Bd 31), Hanstein : Bonn.
Abstract
[Chapter Contents]: The experience at Ostia, 192; mysticism, 193; desire for knowledge, 194; semantic desire, 196; discourse as linear, 199; signs and authorial guarantees of meaning, 205; the via negativa, 210; Lossky's view, 21 1; purity of heart stressed, rather than purity of mind, 212; Ambrose's negatives, 212; vision and anthropomorphism, 212; language and the Trinity, 215; the via negativa a preparatory discipline, 215; Augustine at his most agnostic on the value of language, 217.
Suggested Citation
Raoul Mortley. "Chapter XI. Augustine: the importance of meaning and the unimportance of the negative method" From Word to Silence, 2. The Way of Negation, Christian and Greek (1986).
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