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Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 12/2 3 INTUITIVE AWARENESS: ISSUES IN EARLY MYSTICISM NAKAMURA Hajime NEG TIVE THINKING The main currents of medieval thought were shaped by dogmatics. In the cultural sphere of the Buddhist Far East Vasubandhu (ca. 320-400) and Buddhaghosa were the great compilers of Abhidharma dogmatics, while in Europe a corresponding development took place in positive theology that shows a strong Abhidharma flavor. This theology defined and systematized the truth of faith e m bodied in the teachings of the Church, i.e., in scripture, tradition, and the dogmatic definitions, laying the foundation for speculative theol- ogy. The beginnings of this systematization appeared in Peter Lombard and its methodology was established by Dionysius Petavius. At the same time, a contrasting development was taking place in the form of negative theology, principally represented by the works of Pseudo-Dionysius (that is, those falsely ascribed to Diony- sius the Aereopagite). The author of these texts complemented the positive language of the first way of affirmative theology (kata- phatikz theologia) by a second, higher way of negative theology (apophatike theologia), thereby evolving a third way through which negative theology led to an encounter with God in ecstasy through mystic immersion in superessential light. This negative apophatic Translated by John P. Keenan from Chiisei shis6 2 Sekai shis6shi: Nakarnura Hajime senshii E, ? E ? 9 P Z & [Medieval Thought 2 History of World Thought : Nakamura ~a jime Anthology] vol. 2 1 1976, Tokyo: Shfinjusha, pp. 334-400.
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