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apophatic

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Adj.1.apophatic - 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')


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Bergmann stresses the interrelation of art and religion in an apophatic sense as developed by Eastern Christian mystics such as St.
This is also the underlying reason, I believe, that Christian tradition has never taken easily to meditation, and has never rested entirely comfortably with a methodology that seems to go against the grain of one of its most basic presuppositions: that it is not possible to reach the apophatic without first going through the cataphatic--i.
Still, it must be said that his response to the contemporary atheist seems at once comfortably conventional and totally innocent of the work of contemporary theologians who have tried to recover the apophatic tradition, which emphasizes our inability to define God.
 
 
 
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