Divine Darkness and Legal Darkness: Apophasis, Cataphasis and the Making of Legal Cultures of the First Millennium

Abstract The article explores the long lost synthesis between apophatic and cataphatic theological strategies early legal systematizations which shaped Christian, Jewish Islamic collections in twelfth century. It argues that possibilities to achieve Divine knowledge have reached out all normative forms of human existence including law. focuses specifically on a Christian context where imagining law involves complex scales cataphasis apophasis parallels other such as ritual ascetic practices. text only hints parallel trends appear via very different routes but similar ways projects proposes comparative interreligious study century their hermeneutic is overdue critically important.