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Louise Sundararajan

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Religious awe: Potential contributions of negative theology to psychology, "positive" or otherwise.

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 2002 Louise Sundararajan 45 citations

A hallmark of Christian mysticism is negative theology, which refers to the school of thought that gives prominence to negation in reference to God. By denying the possibility to name God, negative theology cuts at the very root of our cognitive makeup—the human impulse to name and put things into categories—and thereby situates us “halfway between a ‘no longer’ and a ‘not yet’” (Iser, 1978, p....