Theological language
Mystical experience, paradox and principle of symploké
Abstract
The article exposes the possibilities of a theological language articulated from mysticism and negative theology, and that, in addition, is a meaningful speech of the Divine in the turbulent contemporary world. Starting with the historical opposition between the God of philosophy and the God of religious experience, we then proceed to study the possibilities of a paradoxical and contradictory theology that, in line with the principle of symploké, considers the continuities and discontinuities of the world and of our experience in it. For this, I Take examples from the negative theology of Pseudo Dionisio Areopagita, Juan de la Cruz and Nicolás de Cusa, as well as the Latin American spirituality of liberation, represented by Pedro Casaldáliga, José María Vigil and Gustavo Gutiérrez.
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