DISCOURSE ABOUT GOD IN ANALOGY ENTIS AND THE CONTEMPLATION LIKE LANGUAGE IN THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS

Abstract

This article focuses on the limits of what is possible to say about the identity and predicates of God in human language. It affirms the contribution of the analogical discourse about God, taking as an example the Thomas of Aquinas entis analogy, to express a certain proportionality of the Creator with his creatures. At the same time, it presents some of its limits for saying about the deepest identity of God, ineffable in itself, but revealed in its own way through the language of the theology of the cross, marked by contemplation and the silence it communicates. The analysis of synthesis texts on the entis analogy and arguments from two authors linked to the theology of the cross will contribute to this path: Moltmann and Edith Stein. We affirm that the data revealed by God and captured from human rationality needs to be combined with the data revealed on the cross to touch the identity of God. In the first part, he discusses theology as a discourse on God and turns to the entis analogy, then moving on to the language of the theology of the cross. Finally, a synthesis is established, establishing some of the limits of language itself, of classical Western theology and the complementarity of the theology of the cross.