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Part II: Deny Turner on Uttering Performances and the Theological Rhetoric of Meister Eckhart
0 Comments Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen January 7th, 2008 in Aquinas, Denys Turner, Meister Eckhart, Mystery, Negative Theology
[Part I]
Turner acknowledges that surface level analyses of both the stylistic and temperamental contrasts between St. Thomas and Eckhart cannot be denied. For example, it is certainly the case that Thomas’s theological discourses emphasize clarity,[1] understatement and sobriety in contrast with Eckhart’s “hyperactively paradoxical extravagance.” Likewise, one might rightly conclude that these stylistic differences are [...]
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