Sentences with phrase «mystical apophatic»

I prefer the mystical apophatic theology [knowing by unknowing] to the cataphatic theology of the more popular orthodoxy.

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For example, if sacramentalism is uninformed by the mystical tendency to relativize the things of the world, or by the apophatic suspicion of symbols, or by the activist need to change the social world, it will inevitably degenerate into idolatry and empty ritualism.

Let us look a bit more closely at the mystical, apophatic, and praxis - oriented aspects of hope.

It would seem that our longing for the future is genuine hope rather than mere wishing, only if, along with its images of the future, it also includes mystical, apophatic, and active elements that keep these images from being frozen into absolutes.

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.