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s | apophatic |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective apophatic is

pertaining to knowledge of god obtained through negation rather than positive assertions.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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