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Definition of Apophatic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as 'God is unknowable').
Definition of Apophatic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to knowledge of god obtained through negation rather than positive assertions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apophatic
Literary usage of Apophatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Dogma by Adolf von Harnack, Ebenezer Brown Speirs (1898)
"... and the apophatic theologies. The former descends from God to things in order
from the effects to draw conclusions as to the absolute, inexhaustible, ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Doctrine doctrine of God goes back to the kata- of God. phatic and apophatic ("affirming
and denying") theology of Dionysius (i. 13). ..."
3. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1912)
"... in which truth is represented under the garb of a symbol, and (apophatic)
negative theology, which makes no use of symbols, but by which the initiate ..."
4. History of the Christian Church by Wilhelm Ernst Möller (1902)
"... transcendent being as the essence of all essences (apophatic theology), which
only reveals itself to mystical absorption in the nameless; ..."
5. The Methodist Review (1858)
"But this is not all; he describes his infinitude after the fashion of the apophatic
theology, in such a manner that he is denied, objectively, ..."
6. A Text-book of the History of Doctrines by Karl Rudolf Hagenbach (1861)
"... and the apophatic). But affirmation and negation are abolished in the absolute
idea of God, and what to us is contradictory is not so to him. ..."
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