By Andrew Louth
This ebook, one of many earliest via Christos Yannaras, used to be first released in 1967 and has turn into a latest vintage. Yannaras starts through outlining Heidegger's research of the destiny of western metaphysics, which results, he argues, in a nihilistic atheism. Yannaras's reaction is basically to just accept Heidegger's research, yet to argue that, even though it applies to the western culture of what Heidegger calls "onto theology" (which regards God as a 'being', whether the highest), it doesn't take account of the Orthodox culture of apophatic theology, of which Dionysius the Areopagite is a pre-eminent instance. A God 'beyond being' escapes the feedback of Heidegger, and offers a substitute for Heidegger's nihilistic conclusion.
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