Reading Old Books
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Reading old books and joining the ancient conversation.
Follow- Knowing and UnknowingApophatic and cataphatic knowledge here?
Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete WorksHe is all things in all things and he is no thing among things. He is known to all from all things and he is known to no one from anything. - Thomas AquinasThomas references this passage in STh., I q.5 a.2 obj. 1.Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete WorksFor a start, then, let us look, if you will, at the most important name, “Good,” which shows forth all the processions of God.
- I love D's descriptions of the indescribable...Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete WorksHe is indivisible multiplicity, the unfilled overfullness which produces, perfects, and preserves all unity and all multiplicity.
- This captures the 'otherness' of God nicely, I think...Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete WorksMind beyond mind, word beyond speech, it is gathered up by no discourse, by no intuition, by no name.