For him, the assertions of Palamas ran counter to the apophatic insistence in Pseudo-Dionysius that God was unknowable in his essence.
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Apophatic
//apə(ʊ)ˈfatɪk//
Synonyms for "apophatic"
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7 translations across 7 languages.
French
1 entries- apophatique adj (pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions)
German
1 entries- apophatisch adj (pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions)
Greek
1 entries- αποφατικός adj (pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions)
Italian
1 entries- apofatico adj (pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions)
Polish
1 entries- apofatyczny adj (pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions)
Portuguese
1 entries- apofático adj (pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- apofatički adj (pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions)
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Augustine had absorbed the underlying spirit of Greek apophatic theology, but the West did not develop a fully fledged spirituality of silence until the ninth century, when the writings of an unknown Greek author were translated into Latin and achieved near-canonical status in Europe.
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Here is a sudden interruption of remorseless, detailed exposition with a triple-punch of one-sentence paragraphs of self-indentification (2.1–2.4), and of an apophatic, negative kind, statements of what communists are not, have not, do not—[…]
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