1. Dictionary entry overview: What does Apophatic mean? • Apophatic (adjective) The adjective Apophatic has 1 sense:

2. “Apophatic” prayer has no content

3. Lossky is best known and associated with writing on Apophatic Theology (Apophatic, from the Greek, means “unspeakable”)

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6. What are synonyms for Apophatic?

7. Apophatic is the postmodern, or deconstructive, use

8. The method comes from the Apophatic/Cataphatic tradition

9. How to use Apophatic in a sentence.

10. Other articles where Apophatic theology is discussed: Christianity: Eastern Christianity: …and hence on the “Apophatic” or “negative” approach to God

11. Apophatic Prayer is prayer without words, thoughts, and images

12. Apophatic spiritualities use words, images, sounds and symbols as sparsely as possible

13. Cataphatic and apophatic are two paths or methods of theology

14. Kataphatic (aka Cataphatic) vs Apophatic theology - what are they and what's the difference?

15. Apophatic writing that refuses to reduce God to an ontological thing

16. Apophatic spirituality aims at the experience of God, pure and simple

17. / ˌæp.əˈfæt.ɪk / Apophatic theology involves defining or knowing God through negative statements: The Orthodox tradition of Apophatic, or negative, theology holds that none of our concepts can properly …

18. The opposite of apophatic ‘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.’

19. As an eighteen-year-old, I had never heard of Apophatic spirituality

20. Apophatic theology is a way to describe God by identifying what He is not

21. Roger OIson traces Christian, Apophatic beginnings to Athenagoras of Athens in the second century.

22. Apophatic (Adjective) Pertaining to knowledge of god obtained through negation rather than positive assertions.

23. Words pronounced/spelled similarly to "apathetic": Apatetic apathetic aphetic apothecia aphotic apophatic

24. People living with an Apophatic spirituality may experience dereliction, a dark night, inward

25. By definition, someone who practices Apophatic mysticism cannot vouch for the ultimate truth of anything

26. What does Apophatic mean? Pertaining to knowledge of god obtained through negation rather than positive assertions

27. Answer: Apophatic theology (also known as negative theology) is an attempt to describe God by what cannot be said of Him. Many of the terms used to describe God’s attributes have within them an Apophatic quality

28. Apophatic theology and Apophatic anthropology A recent attempt to survey the whole of “Apophatic discourses” insists that “for negative theologies, it is possible to say only what God is not,” and that apophasis amounts to a series of “attempts to devise and, at the same time, to disqualify ways of talking about God.” 1 This approach figures the via negativa as a solution to a

29. THE kataphatic tradition (the “way of affirmation”) emphasizes beauty that is revealed and apparent, while the Apophatic

30. Study RL- Apophatic and Cataphatic flashcards from Eloise edwards's class online, or in Brainscape's iPhone or Android app

31. To be told that kataphatic prayer employs thoughts and images while Apophatic transcends these may be somewhat illuminating

32. The Apophatic and the incarnation is missing in the Dionysian corpus, which moves directly and wrongly from negations in general to silent union with the infinite God.” 14 A third use of the Apophatic is the postmodern, or deconstructive, use

33. "KATAPHATIC" and Apophatic are strange-sounding and, I dare say for many, unfamiliar and puzzling terms

34. Is that Cataphatic is (theology) pertaining to the expression of god in terms of what god is, rather than (apophatic) in terms of what god is not while apophatic is pertaining to knowledge of god obtained through negation rather than positive assertions.

35. Is that cataphatic is (theology) pertaining to the expression of god in terms of what god is, rather than (Apophatic) in terms of what god is not while Apophatic is pertaining to knowledge of god obtained through negation rather than positive assertions.

36. Apophatic theology developed in the church in an effort to speak to or accommodate Platonism, Middle Platonism, and Neo-Platonism

37. Apophatic meditation is a style of meditation that involves clearing the mind, without a focus on an image or visualization

38. By your willingness to stay at the Apophatic at all costs, you are developing a spirit of spiritual non-possessiveness (Matt

39. Practices for the Apophatic path include centering prayer, fasting (“giving up something for Lent”), unknowing, silence, solitude, relinquishment and humility

40. Apophatic is a classical Greek word meaning “removed from speech” or “unsayable,” so that an Apophatic theology is one holding that you cannot use human language to speak meaningfully about God, because He (and strictly speaking even the word “He” cannot be used regarding God) is unknowable and completely “other.” In

41. Apophatic definition: of or relating to the belief that God can only be described by a process of negation Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

42. Apophatic theology bears a surface similarity to the philosophy of rational negations, because both approaches result in verbal declarations of “what God is not”

43. It is not enough to know that prayer is communication with God now you should know the difference between “Apophatic” and “kataphatic” prayer

44. Apophatic theology —also known as negative theology —is a theology that attempts to describe God by negation, to speak of God only in absolutely certain terms …

45. Apophasis, a rhetoric device whereby the speaker raises something by denying it; Apophatic theology, a way of describing the divine by explaining what God is not

46. Apophatic definition: of or relating to the belief that God can only be described by a process of negation Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

47. Cataphatic (not comparable) (theology) Pertaining to the expression of God in terms of what God is, rather than in terms of what God is not (apophatic)

48. Religious Language- Apophatic and Cataphatic Ways: A2 Philosophy On January 10, 2018 February 24, 2020 By Aimee Horsley In Philosophy New Spec Preview of Lesson Plans

49. It is connected with Apophatic theology, which is a form of religious thinking that approaches the concept of God, or the Divine, by contemplating only what it is not.

50. Another explanation—often credited to Eugene Peterson, but which I’ve not yet confirmed—is that Apophatic Prayer is praying with your eyes closed, while Kataphatic Prayer is praying with your eye open

51. Postmodern philosophers such as Derrida take negative theology and the Apophatic move as a way of completely destabilizing all language, which in turn leads one into a nihilistic framework, away from being able to

52. ‘Anselm's theology is excessively Cataphatic (affirmative or positive) and rationalist.’ ‘It is from within this christological context that Maximus's understanding of the relationship between apophatic and Cataphatic theology is most profitably interpreted.’

53. While other times our prayer can be an exercise of self emptying and centering (Apophatic), as Christ in the desert, in a desire to rest solely in God’s presence

54. In this essay, I will describe and critically analyze the author’s use of apophatic and Cataphatic theology in The Cloud of Unknowing, commenting on the relationship between revelation, reason and mystery.

55. Negative or Apophatic theology, a strategy by which knowledge of God is pursued through unknowing and unsaying, has become the target of contemporary critique from multiple different approaches and concerns

56. Apophatic definition is - of or relating to apophasis : involving the practice of describing something by stating which characteristics it does not have; especially : of, relating to, or being negative theology

57. Also see Apophatic mysticism on Facebook 'Wisdom has been my careful study; stupidity, too, and folly.' Ecclesiastes 1;16 Advisement: if you are looking for truth this might not be the best place to look

58. Negative theology, also known as Apophatic theology, is a theological approach that describes God by negation, speaking of God only in terms of what He is not (apophasis) rather than presuming to describe what God is.

59. 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') Familiarity information: Apophatic used as an adjective is very rare.

60. Apophatic - 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') Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection

61. Many of the greatest writers and Fathers in Orthodox theology held to the importance of an Apophatic approach – that is – that we may come to know God best in a manner that is beyond speech.

62. 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.

63. The terminology of “apophatic” and “Cataphatic” theologies, that is, the use of negation (apophasis) and affirmation (kataphasis) in our ways of talking about God, was introduced into Christian theology by the probably early-sixth-century author who wrote under the pseudonym of the Apostle Paul’s convert, Dionysius the Areopagite (generally referred to as Pseudo-Dionysius).

64. That this is so should not be in the least surprising: after all, what is being examined, in seeking to determine that complexity of relation between the Cataphatic and the apophatic, is the very nature of the theological act of knowing as such, so that any intellectual enquiry deserving of the name 'theology' is so structured, whether it is

65. Apophatic theology (from the Greek, apophanai, to speak out, to deny) developed within the Christian tradition as a reaction to eunomius in the 4th century and to other thinkers who overstressed cataphatic theology (from the Greek, kataphasis, to speak positively or in an affirmative manner) and exaggerated the ability of human beings to form rational concepts — as though they exhausted the reality of God.