http://bdhamilton.com/articles/beyond-being-yet-praised-in-creation Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:07:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://bdhamilton.com/articles/beyond-being-yet-praised-in-creation#comment-55 Brian Hamilton Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:33:31 +0000 http://bdhamilton.com/?p=228#comment-55 <p>Isn’t it fascinating, and so strangely appealing? The frequency with which Ps-Dionysius returns to the visible, the created, the named is astonishing; throughout his apophatic work, there’s an underlying insistence that a complete disconnect between God and beings needs to be denied as much as anything else. The paradox is profound and stimulating. “Realizing all this, the theologians praise it by every name—and as the Nameless One.” </p> Isn’t it fascinating, and so strangely appealing? The frequency with which Ps-Dionysius returns to the visible, the created, the named is astonishing; throughout his apophatic work, there’s an underlying insistence that a complete disconnect between God and beings needs to be denied as much as anything else. The paradox is profound and stimulating. “Realizing all this, the theologians praise it by every name—and as the Nameless One.”

]]> http://bdhamilton.com/articles/beyond-being-yet-praised-in-creation#comment-54 Jay Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:40:57 +0000 http://bdhamilton.com/?p=228#comment-54 <p>I really enjoyed this post! I’m a sucker for the apophatic traditions. I agree with Pseudo-Dionysius so many respects. It’s interesting how an acknowledgement of God’s unfathomable transcendence does not lead to a world-denying faith, but an affirmation of the created world.</p> I really enjoyed this post! I’m a sucker for the apophatic traditions. I agree with Pseudo-Dionysius so many respects. It’s interesting how an acknowledgement of God’s unfathomable transcendence does not lead to a world-denying faith, but an affirmation of the created world.

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