Sentences with phrase «of apophatic theology»

Unless we are in effect to abandon all attempts to talk about God as such (a form of apophatic theology which Neville's position seems to favor), the «devious analogy» to which he refers is so devious that it is hard to distinguish it from equivocation or even fraudulent misrepresentation.

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It is absolutely committed to the negative doctrine that there is no divine revelation that delivers genuine knowledge of God; it is absolutely committed to a radically apophatic conception of Christian theology, so that no human language or concept, no product of reason at all, can adequately express the mystery of the divine; and it is absolutely committed to using theology to articulate Christian doctrine given the needs and idiom of the day.

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

Moreover apophatic theology, based on the supposition that God can be known to us only in terms of what He is not, is an integral part of the Church's heritage.

Though it is a necessary corrective to en - sure the breadth of our hope, an exclusively apophatic religion or theology would fail to connect us to our future.

Turner clearly knows his Marx, and he makes a compelling case that until Christian theology recovers the insights of the apophatic tradition, with its exacting strictures on the ways we too easily talk about God, it will be justly subject to critiques like Marx's.

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.

When we affirm something of God (kataphatic theology), we have subsequently and immediately to deny it (apophatic theology) before we can dare assert it again on a new level.