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...

and Being, and thus a conceptual ‘ontologization’ of Being (and so we accept a priori Being as ‘something’, as a being, even if a higher one). The starting-point for Heidegger is the question about the difference between beings and Being. This difference consists in the fact that beings are for us phenomena, they appear, while Being ‘likes to hide itself’: we know beings only so far as they come true (ἀληθεύουν), that is to say, as they emerge from oblivion (λήθη) into dis-closure (ἀ-λήθεια,

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