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- Title
Anthropomorphism and the Apophatic God.
- Authors
Insole, Christopher
- Abstract
This paper is a warning-shot across more sloppy contemporary invocations of an apophatic God. Such apophatic approaches are thought to avoid anthropomorphic projections onto God of parochial and problematic notions of the human subject. Developing an analysis of two views of the human subject given by Charles Taylor, I suggest that modern constructions of the apophatic God look very much like a projection of an intellectually-compromised and culturally-pervasive notion of the subject. I call this subject the “romantic monad”, suggesting Ally McBeal as an example.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHICAL theology; ANTHROPOMORPHISM; NEGATIVE theology; DESCARTES, Rene, 1596-1650
- Publication
Modern Theology, 2001, Vol 17, Issue 4, p475
- ISSN
0266-7177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0025.00168