The Meaning and Power of Negativity

Ingolf U. Dalferth (Herausgegeben von) Born 1948; 1977 Promotion; 1982 Habilitation; Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, Symbolism and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Zurich; Danforth Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University in California; Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa.Trevor W. Kimball (Herausgegeben von) 2010 Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy and Theology), Oxford University; 2012 Master of Studies (Theology - Modern Doctrine), Oxford University; 2019 PhD in Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Claremont Graduate University.

• Ingolf U. Dalferth: Introduction: The Meaning and Power of NegativityI. Negative Theology: The Western TraditionWillemien Otten: Between Thesis and Antithesis: Negative Theology as a Medieval Way of Thinking Forward - Shane Akerman: Problematizing Progress: A Response to Willemien Otten - Andrew W. Hass: Creatio qua Nihil: Negation from the Generative to the Performative - Deidre Nicole Green: Love in the Time of Negativity: A Response to Andrew W. Hass - Stephen T. Davis: Negation in Theology - Carl S. Hughes: Radical Negativity and Infinite Striving: From the Death of God to the Theologia Crucis - Nancy Van Deusen: God's Idiots: Nicholas of Cusa and the "Contrary Motion" of Bankrupted Consciousness: A Dialectic with Negativity - Asle Eikrem: "Mystery is what faith essentially includes…": A Philosophical Critique of the Semantic-Ontological Presuppositions of Negative/Mystical Theology - Raymond E. Perrier: Negative Theology and the Question of Religious Transformation: A Response to Asle EikremII. The Dialectics of NegativityLucas Wright: Difference Through the Prism of the Same: Apophasis and Negative Dialectic in Rosenzweig and Adorno - Thomas M. Schmidt: Dialectics and Despair: Negativity After Hegel - Jonathan Russell: The Question of Unrecognizable Negativity: Hegel and Bataille's Philosophies of Religion: A Response to Thomas M. Schimidt - Dustin Peone: Ethical Negativity: Hegel on the True Infinite - Gal Katz: Negativity and Modern Freedom: Hegel's Negation of Pantheism - Yuval Avnur: Denial, Silence, and OpennessIII. Negativity, Hermeneutics, and SufferingElizabeth Pritchard: Political Theology After Auschwitz: Adorno and Schmitt on Evil - Trisha M. Famisaran: On the Apparent Antinomy Between Ethics and Politics: A Response to Elizabeth Pritchard - Emil Angehrn: Negative Hermeneutics: Between Non-Understanding and the Understanding of Negativity - Thomas Jared Farmer: At the Limits of Understanding: A Response to Emil Anghern - Mara G. Block: Bodily Negations: Time, Incarnation, and Social Critique in the Late Notebooks of Simone WeilIV. Negativity and Eastern TraditionsHalla Kim: Ways of Nothingness: Ryu Young-Mo on God - Hyoseok Kim: Ryu Young-Mo, a Korean version of an Apophatic, Hickian Religious Pluralistic, and Spiritually Elitist Theologian?: A Response to Halla Kim - Alexander Mckinley: The Apotheosis of Emptiness: God Suniyan and the Soteriological Necessity of Negativity in Sinhala Buddhism