Early Christian Mystics and Modern Scientists: from St. Gregory of Nyssa, Denys the Areopagite, St. Augustine to Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli - Absolute Truth [God] is Beyond Words and Beyond Comprehension! = "the unbounded, incomprehensible divinity"
Einstein observed, "Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration of this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent, I am, in fact, religious." The pioneer of Quantum Physics, Neil Bohr, observes that quantum mechanics has changed everything "Truth" and our understanding of reality completely and totally concludes that now, 'Reality, no longer, is Real! The Christian mystic -Dionysius the Areopagite stated "Unknowing, or agnosia, is not ignorance or absence of knowledge as ordinarily understood, but rather the realization that no finite knowledge can fully know the Infinite One, and that therefore He is only truly to be approached by agnosia, or by that which is beyond and above knowledge." St. Gregory thought "You had to leave behind "all that can be grasped by sense or reason" so that "the only thing left for contemplation is the invisible and the incomprehensible." (p.113) St. Gregory of Nyssa stated that, "Any attempt to define God clearly "becomes an idol of God and does not make him known." (p.113) "God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed!" St. Augustine
Institutions
- The Centers (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)
- Published
- 2025-05-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.17613/29s2n-tvn56
- Primary Topic
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Type
- article
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