Christian AgnosticismIllus. 6.1: The greatest challenge to the intellect, according to the Socratic
Nicholas of Cusa, was what he called ‘learned ignorance’.
Another apophatic theologian, Meister Eckhart, makes a
point that is particularly prescient: the importance of drawing
a clear line between silence and an experience of ecstasy. It is
prescient because there is an emphasis on experiencing ecstasy
in much contemporary religiosity. This is Christianity that is