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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 April 2009
Having cited Dionysius as one of the many Christian thinkers who affirm the ineffability, or transcategoriality, of God in God's ultimate inner being, I respond to Timothy D. Knepper's claim that this is a mistake. Whilst accepting much that he says about Dionysius, I still prefer the standard interpretation of the Dionysian texts as teaching the total transcategoriality of the Transcendent as ‘surpassing all discourse and all knowledge’.
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5. Hick ‘Ineffability’, 38.
6. Ibid., 39.
7. Denys Turner The Darkness of God (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 37.
8. Dionysius The Mystical Theology, ch. 2 in The Complete Works of Pseudo-Dionysius, trans. Colm Luibheid (New York NY: Paulist Press, 1987), 36.
9. Dionysius The Divine Names, ch. 1 in Complete Works of Pseudo-Dionysius, 53.
10. John Hick An Interpretation of Religion (London: Macmillan and New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1993).