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apophatic, a. Theol.|æpəʊˈfætɪk|
[ad. Gr. ἀποϕατικός negative (see G. W. H. Lampe Patristic Greek Lexicon s.v.).]
Applied to knowledge of God obtained by way of negation. Hence apoˈphaticism, an apophatic approach to knowledge of God.
1869D. W. Simon tr. Dorner's Doctrine of Person of Christ Div. II. vol. I. 427 The distinction between the communicable and the incommunicable in God (in which, probably, we may trace the influence of the cataphatic and apophatic theology). 1938G. Reavey tr. Berdyaev's Solitude & Society i. ii. 33 Apophatic knowledge..knowledge in the process of discarding all notions and determinations. 1956V. White God the Unknown i. ii. 19 The Greeks called it apophatic theology—‘denying’ theology. St. Thomas calls it the via remotionis or the via negativa: the negative way of removing from our statements about God all that he is not. 1957tr. V. Lossky's Myst. Theol. ii. 38 Apophaticism..is, above all, an attitude of mind which refuses to form concepts about God. 1961H. Armstrong in I. T. Ramsey Prosp. Metaphys. vi. 104 Negative or apophatic theology..certainly does not lead to complete ignorance. |