apophatic
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /apə(ʊ)ˈfatɪk/
apophatic
- (theology) Pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 488:
- For him, the assertions of Palamas ran counter to the apophatic insistence in Pseudo-Dionysius that God was unknowable in his essence.
- 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage 2010, p. 123:
- Augustine had absorbed the underlying spirit of Greek apophatic theology, but the West did not develop a fully fledged spirituality of silence until the ninth century, when the writings of an unknown Greek author were translated into Latin and achieved near-canonical status in Europe.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 488:
- German: apophatisch
- Portuguese: apofático
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