Embracing the Unknowable: Paradigm of Ineffability
Religions June 27, 2023 Antti Piilola
Ineffability is a long-time partner of the philosophy of religion and mysticism. Through apophatic conceptions of the divine, it can act to guarantee the transcendence of the divine, elevate it to something beyond our conceptions. It has also held the central role in defining if not the nature, then at least the characteristics of mystical experience. Sometimes it is that which affirms the...
DOI: 10.3390/rel14060767 (opens in new tab)
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Mystical experience
Ineffability
Philosophy of religion
Philosophy of mysticism
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