This article contrasts two approaches to the via negativa in the work of Colin Gunton and John Calvin. After examining Gunton’s allegation that unbiblical causal and hierarchical commitments within the negative way describe God by projecting the negation of creaturely attributes, it argues that the scriptural exegesis of John Calvin illuminates some of the shortcomings of these critiques. Calvin’s close engagement with scriptural texts about divine alterity demonstrates how the via negativa may be a form of biblical reasoning and highlights the utility of exegesis for discerning the biblical logic of traditional modes of divine naming.

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Colin Gunton 和 John Calvin 谈《Via Negativa》和神学投影

本文对比了 Colin Gunton 和 John Calvin 的作品中的两种方法来处理负面通道。在研究了冈顿关于通过投射对受造物属性的否定来以否定方式描述上帝的非圣经因果和等级承诺的指控之后，它认为约翰加尔文的圣经解释阐明了这些批评的一些缺点。加尔文与有关神异性的圣经文本的密切接触证明了通过否定可能是一种圣经推理形式，并强调了解释在辨别传统的神命名模式的圣经逻辑方面的效用。