The Unknown God and His Theophanies: Exodus and Gregory of Nyssa

• Authors: Maciej Manikowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The analysis, which aims at the interpretation of the three theophanies from Exodus presents—from the metaphysical and epistemological points of view—three fundamental ideas. First, the idea of the absolute unknowability of the essence of God; second, the idea of the real difference between essence and energies in God’s Being; and third, the idea of the real difference between the one essence, three persons (hypostases) and many uncreated divine energies (the powers or names) of God. One must say that the absolute unknowability of the essence of God means that God is forever the unknown God.

Keywords

EN

theophany; God; ontology; philosophy of religion; Gregory of Nyssa

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Forum Philosophicum
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 161-174

Dates

published

2010

Contributors

author

Maciej Manikowski

• University of Wrocław

References

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• Drobner, Hubertus R., and Christoph Klock, eds. Studien zu Gregor von Nyssa und der christlichen Spätantike. Leiden: Brill, 1990.
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• Meredith, Anthony. “The Idea of God in Gregory of Nyssa.” In Studien zu Gregor von Nyssa und der christlichen Spätantike, edited by Hubertus R. Drobner and Christoph Klock, 127–147. Leiden: Brill, 1990.
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10.5840/forphil201015123

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