On the Absence and Unknowability of God (Biblia.com)

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This volume, one of the earliest by Christos Yannaras, was first published in 1967 and has become a contemporary classic. Yannaras begins by outlining Heidegger’s analysis of the fate of western metaphysics, which ends, he argues, in a nihilistic atheism. Yannaras’s response is largely to accept Heidegger’s analysis, but to argue that, although it applies to the western tradition of what...

Mouratidis and Trembelas—and not by chance) I had to fight off the charge of ‘mysticism’, thrust in my face, equally fanatically, and the ‘scientific’ advance of the orthodox Marxist left. I think that today this granite-like hardening of westernization and the alienation of the spiritual life of modern Greece has sustained some critical blows. Yet still the moderately formed Greek, with at least some philosophical and theological education, suspects or knows that it is a peculiarity of his culture

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