a something of time, a this or that, of
the representation of a something, of
a this or that, ₁
But he saw a look on the face which came back to him in later years,
a look full of the “light that never was on sea or land” ; a something of
the clearest glimpse ₂
a primordial fact —
a something of which one is immediately aware;
the equivalent of the mystery of grace ₃
while, the name of, a something of night, so may, may ₄
“Are We Wasting Linguistic Time?” ₅
sources
- And while “idolatry” reduces God to the representation of a something, of a this or that, radical apophaticism destroys negative theology itself as a possible discourse on God.
in Ysabel De Andia, “Negative Theology”
II. Negative Theology and Mystical Theology
2. Affirmative and Negative Theology According to Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite
in Jean-Yves Lacoste, ed., Encyclopedia Of Christian Theology (2005) : 1109-1113 (1111)
more - One Poor Scruple : A Seven Weeks’ Story by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward (New York, London, 1899) : 48
more - Sister Mary Vincent Killeen, O.P., chapter 3, “The Humanism of Irving Babbitt” in her Man in the New Humanism (dissertation, Catholic University of America, 1934) : 38-67 (57)
more - snippet and “from inside” of Mary Roberta Irwin, Ovid’s Ibis : A Translation and Commentary (M.A. Thesis, Indiana University, 1937) : 7
more - title of piece by Mary Roberta Irwin, in Cryptolog (National Security Agency, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland; May 1975)
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