Tag Archives: analogia entis

Hartian Illuminations: Transcendence Beyond Negation and the Analogy of Being

Posted on 22 January 2018 by Fr Aidan Kimel

In this series of “illuminations” I will be citing passages that I have found particularly instructive from the essays collected in The Hidden and the Manifest, followed by a question or brief comment. I hope they will generate good discussion. “I … Continue reading →

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Reflecting the Mystery: Analogy Beyond Negation and Affirmation

Posted on 30 October 2017 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Robert F. Fortuin Silence is a mystery of the age to come, but words are instruments of this world. ~ St Isaac the Syrian The Holy Spirit, in delivering to us the Divine mysteries, conveys its instruction on those … Continue reading →

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Analogy of Being: Knowing God in Similarity within Dissimilarity

Posted on 9 February 2017 by Fr Aidan Kimel

How is it possible to speak meaningfully of the infinite and transcendent God? By definition he is not an object of our sensible, perhaps not even of our intellectual, experience; yet human language is grounded in our experience of the … Continue reading →

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