God’s incomprehensibility means he resists possession, not that reason fails
Evidence
An official of the Holy Office, who had examined Postel’s writings for heresy in 1555, reported that, though his ideas were definitely heretical, ‘no one, fortunately, could possibly understand them except the author’. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 126 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Theologians object that subjecting God to the concept denies his creative freedom; God’s alienation is at once receptivity and spontaneity, receiving the form He gives — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 647; Divine mystery is God’s mode of appearing, not hiddenness from reason (+4 more)
Related
- Incomprehensibility could shield heretical writings from punishment (similarity 0.91)
- God’s incomprehensibility means he exceeds knowledge, not that reason fails him. (similarity 0.84)
- Theological mystery is God’s mode of self-appearing, not a cognitive failure. (similarity 0.83)
- God’s incomprehensibility is a matter of order, not of knowledge’s limits (similarity 0.82)
- Divine mystery is God’s mode of appearing, not hiddenness from reason (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Divine mystery is God’s mode of appearing, not hiddenness from reason
#corroborates(0.85) - Incomprehensibility could shield heretical writings from punishment
#expands(0.70) — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 126