Winter Solstice, 2022: The Apophatic and Uncreated God
If God is the uncreated one, then we cannot know God since everything we know is created and has received its existence from other existences.
Archives
If God is the uncreated one, then we cannot know God since everything we know is created and has received its existence from other existences.
This time of advent and of winter and of solstice approaching affords us an invitation to enter into the darkness, the darkness of our souls
The psalmist advises us to “Be still and learn that I am God.” Silence is a kind of nothingness, an emptiness, a zero—what Thomas Merton
In yesterday’s DM we considered the apophatic side of Divinity, the limits of language to name the Great Mystery or what Eckhart called “the ocean
The Apophatic God is the God of darkness and silence and namelessness. God is therefore another expression of Nothingness who bursts the limits of human apprehension
Merton expounds on the experience of nothingness: But to each of us there is a point of nowhereness in the middle of movement, a point
In recent DMs, we meditated on the rendering of nothingness that humans are capable of such as Hiroshima and climate change and the once Supreme
The current Supreme Court has devolved into a vile experience of Political Nothingness. Political hacks and religious quacks have reduced it to an intellectual joke and
We have a current concept in our culture applicable to political nothingness when we invoke the word “nothingburger.” A nothingburger seems to be a promised meal
We have been meditating on some of the many meanings of Nothingness. Today, August 6, 2022, is the 77th anniversary of the nothingness rendered by the atomic
Receive Matthew Fox's Daily Meditation by subscribing below: