Looking for the meaning or definition of the word apophatic? Here's what it means.
Adjective
(theology) Pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions.
Examples
The apophatic dimension is well taken, but what I missed here was affirmation of what is actually given in the apostolic faith and discussion of the limits of diversity.
The apophatic approach would allow us to negotiate the tension between the inadequacies of traditional judgment speech and the lack of any better alternative.
The theology of the Reformation shares the apophatic quality of Eastern Orthodox theology.
His propensity to self-divulgence was extraordinary, especially for someone trying to recover for the twentieth century the gifts of the apophatic tradition.
Some may wonder at her somewhat facile distinction between apophatic and cataphatic prayer, as well as her surprising omissions.
It is from within this christological context that Maximus's understanding of the relationship between apophatic and cataphatic theology is most profitably interpreted.
