Apophatic Theology

This exploration is coming soon. It will cover the apophatic tradition — the theology of divine unknowability — and its role in the hesychast understanding of prayer and contemplation.

The exploration will trace apophatic theology from its roots in Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite through Gregory Palamas's synthesis, examining why the tradition insists simultaneously that God is unknowable in his essence and genuinely encountered in his energies. It will ask what it feels like to pray apophatically — to release every concept of God in order to meet God himself — and why this radical unknowing is, paradoxically, the most intimate form of knowing.