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Negative (Apophatic) Theology

Eighteen Takes on God, 2019
Abstract One ancient reaction to the difficulties of identifying and describing God is to say that we cannot know what God is, we can only say what he is not. But does that leave any room at all for belief in God? One classic response is to say that we can apply terms to God only in some analogical sense.
L. Stevenson
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Apophatic Theology and Twentieth-Century Novels

Religion and the Arts, 2018
Abstract Drawing on apophatic theology, this essay argues that some twentieth-century texts invite an apophatic approach by revealing the limits of language and hinting at some understanding of God, without doing so directly. First, Leif Enger’s Peace Like a River shows a divine encounter but, in the process, underscores the limits of language to ...
L. L. Nisly
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Apophatic Theology’s Cataphatic Dependencies

The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review, 1998
L'article est consacre au probleme de la connaissance de Dieu et aux problemes poses par les theologies apophatiques et cataphatiques sur la nature de Dieu. L'A. cherche a resoudre ces problemes, en utilisant la doctrine de Saint Thomas d'Aquin comme tremplin.
Mark Johnson
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Apophaticism in Disguise: The Function of Apophatic Theology in Gregory of Nyssa's Soteriology

Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, 2022
he theological interplay between cataphatic and apophatic theology is a delicate balancing act of saying too much and admitting too little. Ultimately, a strong apophaticism serves as a corrective to the human tendency to limit the limitless, to define ...
Chelsea Jordan King
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Knowing Through Unknowing: Unveiling the Reverse Perspective in Lossky’s Apophatic Theology and Its Implications for Orthodox Epistemology

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa
The reverse perspective is a drawing technique of medieval Byzantine iconography, in which the viewer is the point of view of the object depicted in the icon and experiences various perspectives.
Aleksandre Gabunia
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