The Dark Knowledge of God Pieper in the arresting phrase of

in the arresting phrase of Joseph Ratzinger

Guilt concludes on the deeply hopeful note of the revitalizing power of the Incarnation: “Christ [took] all the suffering of guilt on himself

the truth further provokes Stella’s obsession and casts its cloud of accompanying anxiety over her father and stepmother and her fiancé and his family

multilateral revolution: the appearance of new theories and their eventual predomination in some parts and the rejection of them in others across sixteenth-century Europe

The Dark Knowledge of God Pieper in the arresting phrase ofBy Charles Journet From Sacred Scripture to the Summa Theologiae, the silent wisdom of the via negativa has inspired what Charles Journet calls the unknowing of love and the ignorance that is truly learned. The Dark Knowledge of God conducts a concise overview of the apophatic tradition with a series of intriguing meditations on the divine nature. The primary benefit of the via negativa, per Journet, is its power to simplify our apprehension of God.