Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Dedication V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: Facing Contradiction in the Absolute 1
5. Part I : Asian Philosophy
6. Transcendental Contradictions: The Spectre of Non-Being in Early to Middle Brāhmanic-Hindu Thought-System 9
7. “It is Distant, it is Near” – Vedāntic Hindu Visions of Divine Contradictions 39
8. Contradictions and Certainty: The Mīmāṃsā Defense of the Authorless Veda 61
9. Buddhism, Emptiness, and Paradox 77
10. All in One Mind. Huayan’s Holistic Panbuddhism 89
11. Heidegger and Dōgen on the Ineffable 105
12. Part II : Christian Philosophy
13. Contradiction and God Between Neoplatonism and the Byzantine Tradition: Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius, and Nicholas of Methone 137
14. The Ways God Overcomes Contradictions in Human Understanding: Nicholas of Cusa 169
15. Identity and non-Identity of the Human Soul with God in Meister Eckhart’s Metaphysical Mysticism 185
16. Hegel’s Absolute from a Logical Point of View 211
17. The One, the Many, and the Trinity: A Dialetheist Response to the Trinitarian Contradiction 221
18. Part III: Jewish and Islamic Philosophy
19. “Laud and praise Him justly and uprightly, not by attributing to Him exaggerations and absurdities”: God and logic in Jewish thought 249
20. On Ayin, or the Divine Nothing 269
21. Transcendence vs. Immanence in Jewish Philosophy and Poetry 289
22. God’s attributes; Are aḥwāl contradictory? 297
23. God and Impossibility: A Classical Ashʿarī Perspective 311
24. Is Being Contradictory? — Ibn al-ʿArabī and the Principle of Non-Contradiction 347
25. Contributors
26. Names Index
27. Topic Index