Apophasis, Abnegation, and Liturgy
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چکیده
Apophatic theology is normally housed in the epistemological wing of academy, and treated as a via negativa that negates assertion just made. This apophaticism feels like wave washes away every cataphatic sand castle we build.
 In this essay, I would to change street address house liturgy. There, apophatic liturgical reaction sovereignty God. It posture latria. However, such depends, turn, upon abnegation. The infinity God (apophasis) reveals our nothingness (abnegation), makes us rejoice (liturgy) God’s infinity. Worse than idolatry worship ourselves: auto-latria.
 God, which, causes state abnegation, which therefore call abnegation because it means forsaking autolatry.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Warszawskie Studia Teologiczne
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0209-3782', '2719-7530']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30439/wst.2022.2.4