Explain Father Anatoly’s behavior in light of God’s transcendence and immanence (the cataphatic and the apophatic).

1. Considering Plato’s the Allegory of the Cave, what is it that we are prisoners of, and how do we leave this prison?

2. According to Nicholas of Cusa, knowledge (derived from reason) is not equated with Truth. Please explain what he means by this. (clues: a. reason dissects what is ultimately simple b. there are infinite analogies and comparisons.)

3. According to Nicholas of Cusa, knowledge (derived from reason) is not equated with Truth. Please explain what he means by this. (clues: a. reason dissects what is ultimately simple b. there are infinite analogies and comparisons.)

4. According to Dionysus the Areopagite (and so many other mystics), God is unknowable and un-namable, and yet God can be named by all names (God is infinitely distant/transcendent, and yet intimately near/immanent. Explain this.

5. Explain Father Anatoly’s behavior in light of God’s transcendence and immanence (the cataphatic and the apophatic)

6. How would mystics (Nicholas of Cusa) criticize a Platonic/Aristotelian (identity based) conception of the relationship between reality and reason? How is their criticism different from post-modern criticism? How is it similar?

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