See original version at bahai-library.com/velasco_apophatic.
COLLECTION | Published articles |
TITLE | What I Want to Say is Wordless": Mystical Language, Revelation and Scholarship |
TITLE_1ST | Apophatic Scholarship: When the Pen Breaks and the Ink Leaves but a Blot |
AUTHOR 1 | Ismael Velasco |
DATE_THIS | 2001 |
VOLUME | Book 2 |
TITLE_PARENT | Lights of Irfan |
PAGE_RANGE | 119-134 |
PAGE_TOTAL | 152 |
PUB_THIS | Irfan Colloquia |
CITY_THIS | Wilmette, IL |
ABSTRACT | If the Word of God transcends words and letters, what point is there to Scripture, let alone to scholarship; the paradox of a history of writers penning volumes on a subject which they assert cannot be grasped by language; the relevance of mysticism. |
NOTES | Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #28, London School of Economics (July 14-6, 2000). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/28/velasco_apophatic. |
TAGS | - Christianity; - Interfaith dialogue; God; Language; Mysticism; Revelation; Scholarship; Sufism |
CONTENT | Abstract: Download: lights2_velasco.pdf.
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PERMISSION | author and publisher |
LANG THIS | English |
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