Eckhart's ApophaticTheology

Vladimir Lossky (1903-58) was an influential Eastern Orthodox theologian. Born in Germany, he grew up in St Petersburg, Russia, but spent most of his adult life in exile in Paris, where he taught dogmatic theology at the St Dionysus Institute in Paris and the Orthodox Institute of St Irene. Among his best-known works is The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church, also published by James Clarke & Co.

Theologians have always insisted that God is ineffable. But what does it mean to say this? One of the premier explorations of this paradox is Vladimir Lossky's Eckhart's Apophatic Theology. Written more than sixty years ago, and now made available in this accurate and elegant English translation, this classic work will inspire renewed attention to the German Dominican and to the problem of unsaying God.

• A Note from the Society TranslatorsForeword to the English Translation, by Rowan WilliamsForeword to the First Edition, by Maurice de GandillacPreface to the First Edition, by Étienne Gilson1 Nomen InnominabileThe Search for the IneffableThe Source of the 'Nomen Innominabile'Namelessness and PolynymyEsse Innominable Eckhart and St ThomasThe Intimate PresencesThe Wine of CanaMystic or Dialectician?Ignorance of God and of Self2 Nomen OmninominabileNomen Super Omne NomenCollatio EsseUpper and Lower WatersThe Word without WordsSemel Locotus Est Deus, Duo haec AudiviThe One - 'The Name above All Names' The First Determination of Being Puritas et Plenitudo EssendiUnum et OmniaOppositio Nihil Mediationne EntisThe Unity of the UniverseThe Way of Unified Eminence3.Ego Sum Qui SumRevelation of the Unique BeingQuidditas et AnitasDivine Sufficiency and created IndigenceReduplicatio'I Live Because I Live'The Object of MetaphysicsThe Knowledge of QuidditiesQuiddity and 'Esse Secundum' The Level of SubstantialityEssentia et EsseTwo Levels of EssentialityIntelligere et Esse4.Regio Dissimilitudinis InfinitaeCreated Dissimilitude, the Intellect and GraceGrace, Glory and Divine DissimilitudeAscensio IntellectusThe Apophasis of OppositionThe Opposition between 'Intelligere' and 'Esse''Cognitivum Ens' and 'Ens Reale'Intelligible Species and Exemplary Causes Seminal Reasons and the Divine WordIntellectual 'Nihilism' and the 'Uncreatability' of Intellection5.Splendor in MedioFrom Assimilation to Unity Opposition and Non-opposition Indistinctio-Distinctio Dissimiltude-SimiltudoRota in Medio RotaeAnalogical CausalityGod Esse Omnium and the Principle of AnalogyAnalogical Predication and the Doctrine of Being The Analogy of Attribution'Qui Edunt Me Adhuc Esuriant'A Deo et in Deo6.Imago in SpeculoThe Divinity-Form and Divine 'Quo Est'Formal Causality and Divine ExemplarityBeing, Life, IntelligenceThe Theology of the Image and Deifying TransformationAnalogy in the 'Transformation into the Same Image' Index