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词汇 via negativa
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Definition of via negativa in English:

via negativa

nounviːə nɛɡəˈtiːvəˈvīə
  • A philosophical approach to theology which asserts that no finite concepts or attributes can be adequately used of God, but only negative terms.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A postmodern doctrine of God, rather, must be an apophatic theology, or a via negativa.
    • If it were possible to talk about love, it wouldn't be worth talking about: whereof we cannot speak we take the via negativa.
    • Because I risk ‘owning’ this affirmative relationalism coupled with the via negativa of her theological honesty, let me note some remaining questions.
    • Jeffrey also has a theological point to make, however: He interprets the Christianity of these texts as exhibiting what one could call a via negativa, a Christianity (to put it more sharply) with little if any doctrine of creation.
    • This can also lead to a certain fascination with a via negativa, a path of negation that approaches the impossible as religious experience.
    • I think that's sort of the via negativa phrasing of what I'm saying above.
    • The Tao is spoke of via negativa: as not this or that, since all attempts to classify the Tao as this or that would be imprudent.
    • That said, the Anglican emphasis on the quest for holiness and on union with God bred not merely a concern for right practice but also a certain conceptual skepticism and attraction to the via negativa.
    • This via negativa is consistent with the Islamic credal formula, which begins with the negative There is no god…
    • Yet, the via negativa finds place here: when use is useless, it's best to grip the armchair argumenta based not on what X is, but rather on what X is not.
    • In both Zen masters and Christian mystics, Nishitani found the via negativa that follows negation to its end-point in the affirmation of all and the clear vision of that-which-is, or, in Buddhist terms, ‘suchness’.
    • ‘[This] is as autobiographical as I make it,’ the poet tells us in the previous stanza, and he's correct - the self dissolves in most of Agency's poems, leaving a spirit to float about the clouds of unknowing, via negativa.
    • In Cochabamba, Luis Antezana, Bolivia's illustrious literary critic and a close friend of the poet, tells us that Jaime Saenz had chosen the more difficult life of a mystic, the via negativa.
    • The Jewish doctrine of God's ineffability further endorses the via negativa in postmodern Judaism.
    • But important connections can yet be made with postmodernity: first, the rabbinic tradition of commentary is contextual straight back to the Torah itself; second, these commentaries ultimately require the via negativa.

Origin

Latin, literally 'negative path'.

Definition of via negativa in US English:

via negativa

nounˈvīə
  • A way of describing something by saying what it is not, especially denying that any finite concept of attribute can be identified with or used of God or ultimate reality.

    〔神学〕排除不是求是法

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Tao is spoke of via negativa: as not this or that, since all attempts to classify the Tao as this or that would be imprudent.
    • If it were possible to talk about love, it wouldn't be worth talking about: whereof we cannot speak we take the via negativa.
    • Because I risk ‘owning’ this affirmative relationalism coupled with the via negativa of her theological honesty, let me note some remaining questions.
    • A postmodern doctrine of God, rather, must be an apophatic theology, or a via negativa.
    • This can also lead to a certain fascination with a via negativa, a path of negation that approaches the impossible as religious experience.
    • But important connections can yet be made with postmodernity: first, the rabbinic tradition of commentary is contextual straight back to the Torah itself; second, these commentaries ultimately require the via negativa.
    • The Jewish doctrine of God's ineffability further endorses the via negativa in postmodern Judaism.
    • That said, the Anglican emphasis on the quest for holiness and on union with God bred not merely a concern for right practice but also a certain conceptual skepticism and attraction to the via negativa.
    • In both Zen masters and Christian mystics, Nishitani found the via negativa that follows negation to its end-point in the affirmation of all and the clear vision of that-which-is, or, in Buddhist terms, ‘suchness’.
    • In Cochabamba, Luis Antezana, Bolivia's illustrious literary critic and a close friend of the poet, tells us that Jaime Saenz had chosen the more difficult life of a mystic, the via negativa.
    • This via negativa is consistent with the Islamic credal formula, which begins with the negative There is no god…
    • I think that's sort of the via negativa phrasing of what I'm saying above.
    • Yet, the via negativa finds place here: when use is useless, it's best to grip the armchair argumenta based not on what X is, but rather on what X is not.
    • Jeffrey also has a theological point to make, however: He interprets the Christianity of these texts as exhibiting what one could call a via negativa, a Christianity (to put it more sharply) with little if any doctrine of creation.
    • ‘[This] is as autobiographical as I make it,’ the poet tells us in the previous stanza, and he's correct - the self dissolves in most of Agency's poems, leaving a spirit to float about the clouds of unknowing, via negativa.

Origin

Latin, literally ‘negative path’.

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