Sentences with phrase «called apophatic»

What is called apophatic theology says that we can only say what God is not — «Neti, Neti», «not this, not that», as the famous Hindu text puts it God, as mystical theology insists, can not be spoken of, but must be experienced.

The Buddha's renunciation of selfish craving together with his silence about theological issues offers yet another, what we shall call the apophatic (or silent).

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As our inquiries proceed analogically, they are both enriched and disciplined by an awareness of what Eastern Orthodoxy calls the «apophatic» and in Western thought is known as the via negativa.

The first single we released is called «Deliverer,» and it has this whole approach of apophatic prayer, where you go at it from a negative perspective: [basically saying] «God is not this, God is not that.»

Thus it acknowledges with the apophatic tradition that we really do not know the inner being of divine reality; the hints and clues we have of the way things are, whether we call them religious experiences, revelation, or whatever, are too fragile, too little (and often too negative) for heavy metaphysical claims.

It recalls the so - called «apophatic» tradition in Christian thinking that God, «The Cloud of Unknowing», is greater than any picture we have of the Divine.

Moreover, its realism is grounded in an apophatic patience and capacity to wait in silence, as well as in its embodiment in concrete action, or in what contemporary theology calls praxis.