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Apophatism vs Incarnation - What's the difference?

apophatism | incarnation |

As a noun apophatism

is a belief, a theory on approaching knowledge of god in a negative way.

As a proper noun incarnation is

(christianity) the doctrine that the second person of the trinity assumed human form in the person of jesus christ and is fully divine and fully human.

apophatism

English

Noun

apophatism
  • a belief, a theory on approaching knowledge of God in a negative way.

    • incarnation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An incarnate being or form.
  • * Jeffrey
    • She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.
  • * F. W. Robertson
    • The very incarnation of selfishness.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation , the patent troll.}}
  • A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
  • An assumption of human form or nature.
  • A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like
  • The act of incarnating.
  • The state of being incarnated.
  • (obsolete) A rosy or red colour; flesh colour; carnation.
  • (medicine, obsolete) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

    • Related terms

    * carnal * incarnate * reincarnate * reincarnation

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