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2019-09-02 07:00:00 by: Сард
Epistemological questions concerning how created beings are able to know the uncreated God have burgeoned for over 1500 years. Historically, the Christological controversies of the fourth century facilitated the rise of two very different theories about the knowledge of God; one held to a kind of radical apophaticism, claiming that God is totally unknowable, the other embraced the exact opposite view, proclaiming that we can know Him in His entirety (that is, by essence). If the essence-energies distinction is not made the question of the fourth century remains: How can we truly know and be united with God without ...
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