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A Negative Way: Dionysian Apophaticism and the Experiential (2024)
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Exall, M. (2024). A Negative Way: Dionysian Apophaticism and the Experiential. Religions, 15(8), Article 1015. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15081015

The experiential bias in modern understandings of spirituality has led to readings of the pre-modern texts of Pseudo-Dionysius as referring to “negative experiences” of faith. Denys Turner, Bernard McGinn, and others have outlined the mistaken “spiri... Read More about A Negative Way: Dionysian Apophaticism and the Experiential.