ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as `God is unknowable')
How To Use apophatic In A Sentence
- Following an earlier argument for an apophatic approach to theologizing about judgment, this essay investigates some theological resources for imagining judgment.
- The divine judgment is unexpected, kenotic, eschatological, and apophatically affirmed and denied.
- The apophatic dimension is well taken, but what I missed here was affirmation of what is actually given in the apostolic faith and discussion of the limits of diversity.
- That, I think, is the point of those who hold that apophatic theology (negative theology) and cataphatic theology (positive theology) are really two sides of a single coin.
- Following an earlier argument for an apophatic approach to theologizing about judgment, this essay investigates some theological resources for imagining judgment.
- Some may wonder at her somewhat facile distinction between apophatic and cataphatic prayer, as well as her surprising omissions.
- Denys Turner, for one, claims these apophatic experiences are not inner experiences at all but rather category mistakes generated by construing critiques of positive theology as religious experiences.
- It's a learned literary-theological study that suggests not only do the great Russian's novels have a kenotic dimension (kenosis, roughly, is the spiritual emptying of one's will to become receptive to God) but also stresses what Russian Christianity inherited from the apophatic tradition (apophasis, roughly, is an inductive technique used by eastern Christians to demonstrate God's existence). Cross purposes - Guardian
- Clearly, she started off wanting to compare apophatic theology and something one might call ‘negation of contradiction’ in Zen.
- A thoroughly apophatic commitment to divine unknowability appears incompatible with the claim that God is known in Christ.
