Apophatic theology
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title:
Apophatic theology
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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, by negation, to speak only in terms of what may not be said about the perfect goodness that is God. It forms a pair together with cataphatic theology, which approaches God or the Divine by affirmations or positive statements about what God is. The apophatic tradition is often, though not always, allied with the approach of mysticism, which aims
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Way of describing the divine by explaining what God is not
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophatic_theology
date created:
2002-08-02T14:25:43Z
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2024-08-29T08:18:58Z
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