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Apophatic vs Apophantic - What's the difference?

apophatic | apophantic |

As adjectives the difference between apophatic and apophantic

is that apophatic is pertaining to knowledge of god obtained through negation rather than positive assertions while apophantic is having a declaration, statement, or proposition.

apophatic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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.
  • Antonyms

    * cataphatic

    apophantic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having a declaration, statement, or proposition