Abstract

What the post-modern philosophies have in common is the rejection of metaphysics, renouncing the modernity’s meta-narrations. This refusal, stemming from the Nietzschean death of God, also brings about the refusal of Christian metaphysics, namely rejecting dogmatics, morality, churchly hierarchy etc. The present text attempts to formulate an argument and a theological solution to the post-modern challenges epitomised herein by Gianni Vattimo’s “weak thought”, by starting off with the various meanings of the concept of metaphysics and the opening towards the apophatic experience supposed by the dogmatic antinomies. The argument will be developed in two steps: (1) bringing to the foreground the challenge of the weak thought’s nihilist Christianity; and (2) trying to answer this inconvenient challenge with the help of the Orthodox apophatic theology, going back to St. Dionysius Pseudo-Areopagite.

Keywords: weak thought, Christian metaphysics, dogmatics, apophatic theology, St. Dionysius Pseudo-Areopagite

Publicat în Internationa Journal of Arts & Sciences, vol. 4, nr. 27, 2011, pp. 127-134.

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