Cyril O’Regan

Apophatic Theology and Eschatology

July 14, 2026 Cyril O’Regan

Abstract Apophatic theology in the Christian tradition connotes far more than a peak experience of union with the transcendent God who exceeds name and concept. For Christian thinkers East and West such experiences were considered an adumbration in time of the eschatological state as one of permanent beatitude, whether this state was considered more nearly in static terms (as in the West) or...