Kosmološki aspekti jedinstva potvrdne (katafatičke) i odrečne (apofatičke) bogoslovske perspektive

Abstract

Expressions of an affirmative and negative semantic determination are the basis of human linguistic communication. In order to communicate with one another, we must use true statements. We call true statements all those statements whose meaning is agreed upon by a large number of people. Each true statement consists of affirmative or negative statements, or both affirmative and negative statements. There are two ways of expression in the theological literature of theurgy, divine designation, and the many-faceted aspects of divine knowledge. The first way of expression is affirmative or cataphatic (gr. cataphaticή), and the second one is negative or apophatic (gr. ἀpophaticή). Although theological literature is full of problematic topics related to various aspects of affirmative and negative theological statements, we believe that for the sake of their fuller coverage it is necessary to include cosmological aspects in the discussion, since the cosmological dimension of existence is revealed as one of the basic assumptions of the theological problem of divine designation, which we find and in the theological tradition of the divine Dionysius the Areopagite. Finally, this theological aspect in contemporary theological studies of the various dimensions of affirmative and negative theology is particularly insufficient when considering its significance for the daily Christian life.