What is the difference between Heideggers “ontological difference” and negative theology?
“The essential different between Heidegger’s philosophy of unhiddenness and negative theology as found in Dionysius and John of the Cross consists in tehir completely different starting points. They understand divine Being as a Being in and for itself, outside of history, so that it emerges primarily through the theophany of a mystic. Heidegger, however, claims that Being emerges through the ‘clearing’ of different, purely historical spaces in which particular gods, institutions, and arts appear historically. For negative theology, as well as for Heidegger, Being (God) is ‘sublime,’ but in a fundamentally different sense. In negative theology the sublime and elevated nature of God is defined in the sense that it finally can be made visible only by relinquishing those capacities (rational knowledge, memory and will) that make possible the ‘day’ of rational life. For Heidegger, too, Being is not exhausted by beings and so Being is sublime and elevated in this sense for him. It remains hi
