Unknown God, Known in His Activities : Incomprehensibility of God during the Trinitarian Controversy of the 4th Century

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by Karolina Kochanczyk-Boninska , Tomasz Stepien

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Book Series European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions

ISBN-10 3631757360

ISBN-13 9783631757369

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Publisher Peter Lang AG

Imprint Peter Lang AG

Country of Manufacture DE

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 17th, 2018

Print length 254 Pages

Weight 402 grams

Product Classification: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 Christianity Sacred texts

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This book deals with the 4th-century Trinitarian controversy, which had a profound impact on negative theology. Eunomius claimed that we can know both the substance (ousia) and activities (energeiai) of God, whereas Cappadocians demonstrated the incomprehensibility of God’s essence, and the possibility of knowing his external activities.

What can man know about God? This question became one of the main problems during the 4th-century Trinitarian controversy, which is the focus of this book. Especially during the second phase of the conflict, the claims of Anomean Eunomius caused an emphatic response of Orthodox writers, mainly Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa. Eunomius formulated two ways of theology to show that we can know both the substance (ousia) and activities (energeiai) of God. The Orthodox Fathers demonstrated that we can know only the external activities of God, while the essence is entirely incomprehensible. Therefore the 4th-century discussion on whether the Father and the Son are of the same substance was the turning point in the development of negative theology and shaping the Christian conception of God.

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