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Negative theology (Topical Term)

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Preferred form: Negative theology

Used for/see from:

Apophatic theology
Via negativa (Theology)

See also:

Broader heading: Theology
Mysticism

Notes

The unknown God : negative theology in the Platonic tradition : Plato to Eriugena, 1995: back cover ('... the beginnings in European thought of the negative or apophatic way of thinking and its relation to more positive or kataphatic ways of thinking about God')

Encyc. of religion and ethics, 1917: v. 9, p. 217, article on "Negation" ('The term "negative theology" is used by Dionyius Areopag. de myst. theol. 1 ff., de Div. Nom. i. 4. See also Scotus Erigena de Div. Nat. ii. 30.')

Evangelical dict. theol. (Via negativa: sometimes called apophatic theology; originated in the Neoplatonic tradition)

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