TY - JOUR ID - 68830 TI - The Divine Theology in Avicenna's Viewpoint JO - Philosophy of Religion JA - JPHT LA - en SN - 2008-7063 AU - Tabaraei, Mahnaz AU - Abbasian Chaleshtari, Mohammad Ali AU - Alamolhoda, Seyyed Ali AU - Mohammadi, Naser AD - PhD Student, Payame Noor University of Tehran AD - Associate Professor of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Payame Noor University of Tehran Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 15 IS - 3 SP - 585 EP - 605 KW - Negative theology KW - Necessary being KW - Denial of likeness KW - Avicenna DO - 10.22059/jpht.2018.241459.1005506 N2 - In this article, the ontological, epistemological, and linguistic aspects of negative theology has been examined in the works of Avicenna based on reasons such as the difference between the creator and the creature, the emphasis on the true unity and the simplicity of the essence of the sublime God, nonexistence of any similar being to Him, His freedom from limitations and quiddity, His absoluteness and infiniteness, human inability to comprehend the sublime Allah, the unfathomability of His sublimity and being to human intellect, the imperfection of the caused compared to the cause, and the human's limited perceptive power. The examination of Avicenna's theological system leads us to the point that Avicennan ontology emphasizes the huge gap that exists between the absolute being (i.e. God) and other beings. He is the cause of creatures, but does not have any generic similarity to them. In the epistemology sphere, Avicenna has rejected the possibility of the existence of a human positive knowledge that is congruent with reality. In the linguistic realm, the negative theology reasons that exist in his theory are in line with the ontological and epistemological dimensions of his viewpoint, i.e. it is natural that if something cannot be known and found, it cannot be expressed, either.    UR - https://jpht.ut.ac.ir/article_68830.html L1 - https://jpht.ut.ac.ir/article_68830_29b76875db3e337e8614f52e5fd3a1ba.pdf ER -