Apophatic - What does it mean?
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Pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 488:
*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.
apophatic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- For him, the assertions of Palamas ran counter to the apophatic insistence in Pseudo-Dionysius that God was unknowable in his essence.