جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « Essence of God » در نشریات گروه « فلسفه و کلام »

Thinking and talking about God is one of the topics that has had a prominent place since the beginning of human reflection. Many of the issues raised about God depend on how we imagine God. Philosophers 'perception of God Almighty is different from mystics' perception of God. In the view of philosophers who believe in external multiplicities, the essence of the Supreme Being is conditioned by no condition, and in the view of philosophers who believe in the skeptical unicity of gradation, God Almighty is unconditioned. Whereas, in the view of mystics, the essence of God .Almighty is non-conditional as the source of division, absolute, and free from any constraint, even an absolute constraint. The God imagined by those philosophers is only a determination of the absolute truth of the Supreme Being and bound by the Absolute. The research question is whether Allameh Tabatabai's approach to God is a mystical or philosophical approach? Or does he know one as accurate and the other as more accurate? In this research, it becomes clear that by passing from "gradation of being" to "gradation of epiphanic forms", he not only has a mystical approach, but also sees the mystical approach more precisely than the philosophical approach.

"Negative theology" and "positive theology" are usually introduced as two opposing epistemic and linguistic theories or approaches to God and His attributes in relation to man. Negative theology considers God and His attributes to be unknowable and not expressible in words by man, and positive theology considers God and His attributes to be knowable and expressible in words. According to this article, negative and positive theologies, in addition to epistemic and linguistic dimensions or aspects, also include ontological and pragmatic dimensions and aspects. This article, by using a descriptive and analytical method and by citing some evidences from the views of some prominent philosophers and theologians of the West, first, tries to establish and justify the four dimensions of a negative and positive theology. And then, tries to introduce a multifaceted theology based on the verses of the Holy Quran, with epistemological, linguistic, pragmatic, and ontological aspects. This theology, in all of its aspects, is negative towards the Essence and Essential Attributes of God but positive towards the Names of God. According to the positive multifaceted Qur'anic theological approach adopted in this article, the first step for man's relationship with God is cognitive.