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- Apophatic theology, also known as negative theology, is a form of theological thinking and religious practice which attempts to approach God, the Divine...
- Apophatic may refer to: Apophasis, a rhetoric device whereby the speaker raises something by denying it Apophatic theology, a way of describing the divine...
- is believed to be, in contrast to the "negative" terminology used in apophatic theology to indicate what it is believed the divine is not. "Cataphatic"...
- the divine Logos or only-begotten Son of God, cataphatic theology with apophatic theology, a hermeneutic defined by a Sacred Tradition, a catholic ecclesiology...
- Madhyamaka thought, have also been influential in the shaping of the apophatic and sometimes iconoclastic nature of Zen rhetoric. The word Zen is derived...
- speculative Pietism = Cataphatic and affective Encratism = Apophatic and speculative Quietism = Apophatic and affective In discursive meditation, such as Lectio...
- writing in Mystical Theology, he has been identified as the "progenitor of apophatic or negative theology." The author pseudepigraphically identifies himself...
- ineffable Absolute beyond the theology of divine names." Pseudo-Dionysius' Apophatic theology, or "negative theology", exerted a great influence on medieval...
- effable or ineffable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Atopy (philosophy) Apophatic (or "negative") theology Creator ineffabilis (Christian prayer) Ideasthesia...
- and incomprehensible infinity”, Eriugena follows Pseudo-Dionysius's apophaticism into its extremes towards "the ineffable and incomprehensible and inaccessible...