Eckhart's ApophaticTheology: Knowing the Unknowable God [Paperback]

Vladimir Losskys posthumously published masterwork is now made available in English for the first time.

Vladimir Lossky's posthumously published masterwork is now made available in English for the first time. Eckhart's Apophatic Theology is the culmination of a long process, whereby the renowned Orthodox philosopher and theologian embraced the ways of thinking of a thirteenth-century German mendicant and mystic. While refusing to simplify Eckhart's theology to a system or single motif, Lossky explores in detail the various ramifications of Eckhart's insistence on the ineffability of God.
Is God to be regarded as 'being', or the 'One', or 'Intellect'? Does God's pure expression of each of these preclude the others? Framed by six key statements about God's essence, Lossky lays out Eckhart's approach to this dilemma. His understanding of the problem, guided by careful engagement with a multitude of sources, is exhaustive. Scholars will welcome this eagerly-anticipated translation.GBTheologians have always insisted that God is ineffable. But what does it mean to say this? One of the premier explorations of this paradox is Vladimir Lossky's Eckhart's Apophatic Theology. Written more than sixty years ago, and now made available in this accurate and elegant English translation, this classic work will inspire renewed attention to the German Dominican and to the problem of unsaying God.This first, fine and accurate English translation of Lossky's very important study of Eckhart's Theology is a milestone in the recovery of this medieval Dominican reliance on the Greek Christian and Islamic philosophical tradition. What had been a textbook in its German version is finally available to the English speaking readers who will thoroughly enjoy to discover a side of Eckhart that has only recently been rediscovered.While refusing to simplify Eckhart's theology to a system or single motif, Lossky explores in detail the various ramifications of Eckhart's insistence onls\