apophatic

These "kids" live in a world dominated by apophatic discourse.

Nevertheless, an apophatic approach is evident in much of Buddhist philosophy.

Eastern Christianity makes use of both apophatic and cataphatic theology.

Among the themes of the book are apophatic theology and intellectualism versus practice.

Mother Teresa's own spiritual struggles have correspondences in the apophatic tradition.

Maimonides' use of apophatic theology is not unique to this time period or to Judaism.

After the apophatic statements, the process of the Divine in action are used to describe the effect of such a god.

This was what the Greeks called an apophatic statement because we do not understand what 'more than wise' can possibly mean.

In the Greek Orthodox Church, however, all good theology would be silent or apophatic.

The apophatic way would be to state that God is not hate (although such description can be accused of the same dualism).

Negative/apophatic theology and its procedures in Islam were first clearly found in the writings of Ali.

The via negativa, or apophatic way, is a way of understanding religious language in terms of negation.

In fact there was nothing heretical about the Latin assertion, even though it did not suit the Greeks' apophatic spirituality.

Apophatic theology often is contrasted with "Cataphatic theology."

This assertion that God was in some sense describable did not amount to an abandonment of Denys's apophatic theology, however.

This is in keeping with the church's use of Apophatic theology, as described by Dionysius the Areopagite and others.

In Orthodox theology, apophatic theology is taught as superior to cataphatic theology.

It corresponds to the western via negativa, a mystical approach that forms a part of the tradition of apophatic theology.

This leads to the denial of the transcendent and apophatic, incomprehensible definition of the essence of God.

Whereas with rational thought one uses logic to understand, one does the opposite with God (see also Apophatic theology).

However, his greatest praise is reserved for Plato, whose apophatic views of God prefigure Christianity.

(Kataphatic and apophatic refer to gestures meaning "yes" and "no," respectively.)

They marked a shift from a largely apophatic (negative) philosophical trend within Buddhism to a decidedly more cataphatic (positive) modus.

It requires an understanding of God that is informed by the ideas of apophatic theology and of antithesis and paradox.

This did not depend on imagery and vision but rested on the apophatic or silent experience described by Denys the Areopagite.