The contemplative practice of Centering Prayer draws on both Buddhist meditation and mystical texts from this theological tradition, like The Cloud of Unknowing. For 10 points each:
[10m] Douglas John Hall wrote that modern Christianity is “not the church” in an “exercise” in what patristic tradition that embraces God’s ineffability?
ANSWER: negative theology [or via negativa or negation; accept apophatic theology or apophasis or apophaticism]
[10h] Specific term required. David Newheiser’s (“NEW-hyzer’s”) book Hope in a Secular Age calls negative theology this process’s “first serious rival.” Evangelicals increasingly use it as a framework to question key tenets of their faith.
ANSWER: deconstruction [or word forms of deconstructing or deconstructionist; accept faith deconstruction]
[10e] Jean-Luc Marion termed this experience a “saturated phenomenon” in a debate with Jacques Derrida over negative theology and deconstruction. It titles a biblical book that many evangelicals believe describes the rapture.
ANSWER: revelation [or divine revelation; accept Book of Revelation or apocalypse or apokálupsis; accept revealed religion]
<Religion>