Theological Term of the Week: Apophatic Theology
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 4:00AM
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apophatic theology
A method of describing God by saying what he is not. Also called via negationis.1

Learn more:

  1. Got Questions: What is apophatic theology?
  2. Theopedia: Negative Theology

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Filed under God’s Nature and His Work

1From None Greater, page 248.

2 From None Greater, page 37.

3 From The Christian Faith, page 225.

4 From The Christian Faith, page 226.


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