| 单词 | via affirmativa |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvia affirmativa b. Theology. via negativa, the approach to God in which his nature is held so to transcend man's understanding that no positive statements can be made about it; the way to union with God in which the soul leaves behind the perceptions of the senses and the reasoning of the intellect; also transferred, a way of denial; so via affirmativa, the approach to God through positive statements about his nature. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > branches of theology > [noun] > apophaticism remotion1587 via negativa1856 apophaticism1957 society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > branches of theology > [noun] > cataphatic approach via affirmativa1856 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. iv. ii. 124 These two paths, the Via Negativa (or Apophatica) and the Via Affirmativa (or Cataphatica) constitute the foundation of his [sc. Dionysius's] mysticism. 1899 W. R. Inge Christian Mysticism iii. 114 When Luther had the courage to break with ecclesiastical tradition, the via negativa rapidly disappeared within the sphere of his influence. 1942 Mind 51 257 Any one..who sets out along the via negativa in this spirit is confessing in the very act that ‘is’ can never be tortured into ‘isness’. 1956 G. Macleod Only One Way Left viii. 152 The Via Negativa: the way of interior denial. Unfortunately the Via Negativa cuts dead across the Emmaus Road. 1963 J. A. T. Robinson Honest to God v. 95 The via negativa underlay the whole medieval ‘way of perfection’. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia IV. 549/2 He [sc. the pseudo-Dionysius] recognizes the partial validity of the positive approach (via affirmativa). 1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Jan. 88/5 As regards the Revolution, M Meyer's work is an exercise in the via negativa. < as lemmas |
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