Apophatic theology, also known as negative theology, is a form of theological thinking and religious practice which attempts to approach God, the Divine...
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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...
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of God, cataphatic theology with apophatic theology, a hermeneutic defined by a Sacred Tradition, a catholic ecclesiology, a theology of the person, and...
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Mysticism (section Apophatic theology)
the ineffable Absolute beyond the theology of divine names." Pseudo-Dionysius' Apophatic theology, or "negative theology", exerted a great influence on medieval...
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Apophatic may refer to: Apophasis, a rhetoric device whereby the speaker raises something by denying it Apophatic theology, a way of describing the divine...
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Christian theology is the theology – the systematic study of the divine and religion – of Christian belief and practice. It concentrates primarily upon...
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and incomprehensible infinity”, Eriugena follows Pseudo-Dionysius's apophaticism into its extremes towards "the ineffable and incomprehensible and inaccessible...
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Sethianism (section Theology)
and omnipotent, the Sethian mythology approaches God by apophatic theology ("negative theology"), stating that God is immovable, invisible, intangible...
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down. Apophatic theology often is contrasted with "Cataphatic theology". In many Christian seminaries, the four Great Departments of Theology are: Exegetical...
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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...
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philosophers[who?] consider ignosticism to be distinct. Apatheism Apophatic theology Atheism Conceptions of God Epistemology Ietsism Loki's Wager Pantheism...
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the Catholic Church declares that Baptism erases original sin. Methodist theology teaches that original sin is eradicted through entire sanctification. Sin...
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Peter Rollins (section Shift to radical theology)
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...
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describes God as the Absolute Being. Central insights of classical theistic theology includes emanationism and divine simplicity. Classical theistic traditions...
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Christian existentialism (redirect from Existential Theology)
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...
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Hypostasis (philosophy and religion) (redirect from Hypostasis (Christian theology))
intellect (nous) and "the one" was addressed by Plotinus. In Christian theology, the Holy Trinity consists of three hypostases: that of the Father, that...
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(Latter Day Saints) Great Architect of the Universe Great Spirit Apophatic theology Olelbis Open theism Personal god Phenomenological definition of God...
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Trinity (redirect from Trinity (theology))
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 ...
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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)...
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language Eschatological verification Language game Logical positivism Apophatic theology Verificationism Problem of evil Augustinian theodicy Best of all possible...
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philosophical speculation. While Thomas Aquinas argued that kataphatic and apophatic theology need to balance each other, Vladimir Lossky argued, based on his reading...
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Consubstantiality (section Theological use)
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...
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Nestorianism (redirect from Nestorian Theology)
Nestorianism is a term used in Christian theology and Church history to refer to several mutually related but doctrinarily distinct sets of teachings....
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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...
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Nizari Isma'ilism (section Theology)
(Portuguese: Divã do Imamato Ismaeli). Nizari Ismaili theology is the pre-eminent negative or apophatic theology of Islam because it affirms the absolute Oneness...
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Christian mysticism (redirect from State (theology))
the ineffable Absolute beyond the theology of divine names." Pseudo-Dionysius' apophatic theology, or "negative theology", exerted a great influence on medieval...
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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...
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revelation, this category of argument falls within the domain of natural theology. A cosmological argument can also sometimes be referred to as an argument...
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Through his writing in Mystical Theology, he has been identified as the "progenitor of apophatic or negative theology." The author pseudepigraphically...
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Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity. It is taught as an academic discipline...
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