La teologia dionisiana in Tommaso d’Aquino e Jean-Luc Marion
In this article, we examine the influence of negative theology on the thought of Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Luc Marion. We will analyze the question of the similarity or difference between apophatic theology and deconstructionism, drawing synchronic comparisons between Dionysian theology, Thomistic thought, and the deconstructionist challenge. These topics bring the discussion to the boundaries between philosophy and theology; therefore, we will see whether Marion’s thought is philosophical or theological, and by what right phenomenology can address the theme of revelation in general, and of the Name of God in particular. Marion focuses on a historical-genetic investigation of the term “negative theology.” The conclusions of his study show that neither the Alexandrians nor the Cappadocian Fathers, nor even Irenaeus or Augustine – as well as Bernard, Bonaventure, or Thomas Aquinas – although they employ negations when naming God and adopt an apophatic approach in their theology, none of them actually use the expression negative theology.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53438/OKSJ8792
