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Deux plaidoyers mystiques en faveur du « no pensar nada » : le Troisième Abécédaire spirituel (1527) et la Loi d'amour (1530) de Francisco de Osuna
2017
Two mystical pleas for the «no pensar nada»: the Third Spiritual alphabet (1527) and the Law of love (1530) by Francisco de Osuna A mystic principle rooted in negative theology (from Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite to Saint John of the Cross), the « no pensar nada » ("thinking-nothing") was strongly defended by Franciscan preacher and spiritual guide of the « Recollection », Francisco de Osuna, in a context of spiritual polemics marked by the condemnation of Toledo's « Alumbrados » ("the Illuminated") in 1525. Despite the Holy Office's strong pressure, and the threat of censorship, Osuna openly advocated the « thinking-nothing » principle in a chapter of the Third Spiritual Alphabet (1527),…
The negative Theology of Matter in Calcidius
2014
After the Fall of the Roman Empire, where it covered prominently many aspects of a cultivated citizen's life, the platonic philosophical Tradition was practically dismissed from the centre of european spiritual life and survived only in restricted corners of the new scenario designed by the barbaric invasions. This lack was deepened after 1000 A. D. when the importance of Plato's thought in Theology was replaced by the new spiritualized access which could be granted via the arabic culture to the texts of Aristotle. In many cases, the parts of the platonic tradition which persisted as a stable component of the late medieval theological Thought were those more strictly connected to the proble…
La teologia negativa di Leonardo Sciascia
2017
Un saggio sulla teologia negativa di Leonardo Sciascia e il suo rapporto con il cristianesimo A contribution in a volume dedicated to M. Sacco Messineo in which some philosophical topics are extracted from the work of Leonardo Sciascia and his relationship to theology and Christianity is analyzed by taking reference to some parallels between Sciascia's attitude and the philosophical tradition of negative theology