On the absence and unknowability of God : Heidegger and the Areopagite / Christos Yannaras ; edited and with an introduction by Andrew Louth ; translated by Haralambos Ventis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giannaras, Chrēstos, 1935-

Contributor:

Louth, Andrew.

Ventis, Haralambos.

Language:

English

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

God--Knowableness.

God.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Theology.

Physical Description:

136 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T & T Clark, 2005.

Language Note:

Translated into English.

Summary:

This book, one of the earliest by Christos Yannaras, was first published in 1967 and has become a contemporary classic. Yannaras begins by outlining Heidegger's analysis of the fate of western metaphysics, which ends, he argues, in a nihilistic atheism. Yannaras's response is largely to accept Heidegger's analysis, but to argue that, although it applies to the western tradition of what Heidegger calls "onto theology" (which regards God as a 'being', even if the highest), it does not take account of the Orthodox tradition of apophatic theology, of which Dionysius the Areopagite is a pre-eminent example. A God 'beyond being' escapes the criticism of Heidegger, and provides an alternative to Heidegger's nihilistic conclusion.

Notes:

Originally published in 1967 with title: The theology of the absence and unknowability of God--P. 3.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-131) and index.

ISBN:

0567088065

OCLC:

57457646