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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...

While the problem of the different forms of theological apophaticism will receive more detailed treatment in a later chapter, it is necessary here to emphasize the distinction between an apophaticism of essence, as exemplified by western scholasticism, and an apophaticism of the person, that characterizes the Christian thought of the Greek East. This distinction reflects not simply a methodological distinction, but an insurmountable contrast on the level of ontology as well as epistemology: apophaticism

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