Apophatic theology, also known as negative theology, is a form of theological thinking and religious practice which attempts to approach God, the Divine...

Apophatic may refer to: Apophasis, a rhetoric device whereby the speaker raises something by denying it Apophatic theology, a way of describing the divine...

of God, cataphatic theology with apophatic theology, a hermeneutic defined by a Sacred Tradition, a catholic ecclesiology, a theology of the person, and...

believed to be, in contrast to the "negative" terminology used in apophatic theology to indicate what it is believed the divine is not. "Cataphatic" comes...

the ineffable Absolute beyond the theology of divine names." Pseudo-Dionysius' Apophatic theology, or "negative theology", exerted a great influence on medieval...

Christian theology is the theology – the systematic study of the divine and religion – of Christian belief and practice. It concentrates primarily upon...

(Latter Day Saints) Great Architect of the Universe Great Spirit Apophatic theology Olelbis Open theism Personal god Phenomenological definition of God...

and incomprehensible infinity”, Eriugena follows Pseudo-Dionysius's apophaticism into its extremes towards "the ineffable and incomprehensible and inaccessible...

down. Apophatic theology often is contrasted with "Cataphatic theology". In many Christian seminaries, the four Great Departments of Theology are: Exegetical...

Mystical Theology (Περὶ μυστικῆς θεολογίας), "a brief but powerful work that deals with negative or apophatic theology and in which theology becomes explicitly...

theo-philosophical movement which takes an existentialist approach to Christian theology. The school of thought is often traced back to the work of the Danish philosopher...

and omnipotent, the Sethian mythology approaches God by Apophatic theology ("negative theology"), stating that God is immovable, invisible, intangible...

hena theon) '"one god at a time"'. Henotheism refers to a pluralistic theology wherein different deities are viewed to be of a unitary, equivalent divine...

the Catholic Church declares that Baptism erases original sin. Methodist theology teaches that original sin is eradicted through entire sanctification. Sin...

intellect (nous) and "the one" was addressed by Plotinus. In Christian theology, the Holy Trinity consists of three hypostases: that of the Father, that...

revelation, this category of argument falls within the domain of natural theology. A cosmological argument can also sometimes be referred to as an argument...

tradition of apophatic theology, while his more recent books have signalled a move toward the theory and practice of death of God theology. In these books...

describes God as the Absolute Being. Central insights of classical theistic theology includes emanationism and divine simplicity. Classical theistic traditions...

self-sufficient reality that depends upon nothing external to itself. In theology, the term is also used to designate the supreme being. Hegel used the term...

language Eschatological verification Language game Logical positivism Apophatic theology Verificationism Problem of evil Augustinian theodicy Best of all possible...

Nestorianism is a term used in Christian theology and Church history to refer to several mutually related but doctrinarily distinct sets of teachings....

philosophers[who?] consider ignosticism to be distinct. Apatheism Apophatic theology Atheism Conceptions of God Epistemology Ietsism Loki's Wager Pantheism...

Process theology is a type of theology developed from Alfred North Whitehead's (1861–1947) process philosophy, but most notably by Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000)...

consubstantialis, and its best-known use is in regard to an account, in Christian theology, of the relation between Jesus Christ and God the Father. The affirmation...

philosophical speculation. While Thomas Aquinas argued that kataphatic and apophatic theology need to balance each other, Vladimir Lossky argued, based on his reading...

that it is unreasonable to assume that the author of Genesis was too theologically primitive to deal with such a concept as 'plurality within unity';: 134 ...

It is in use in the fields of Christian apologetics and general liberal theology. An early usage of the hyphenated term non-theism is attributed to George...

The history of theology has manifestations in many different cultures and religious traditions. Plato used the Greek word theologia (θεολογία) with the...

that theological language is meaningful but being noncommittal about its truth or falsity on the grounds of insufficient evidence. Apophatic theology Conceptions...

(Portuguese: Divã do Imamato Ismaeli). Nizari Ismaili theology is the pre-eminent negative or apophatic theology of Islam because it affirms the absolute Oneness...