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Kataphatic Identity and Religious Symbolism

open access: yes, 2016
Kataphatic language brings divinity down to our context and entails a certain trust in culture and language for undertaking theological reflection. Tillich presents symbolic identity as a participation in the ground and abyss of being, which nurtures and ejects language.
Sigridur Gudmarsdottir
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Towards a Reclaimed Framework of “Knowing” in Spirituality and Education for the Promotion of Holistic Learning and Wellbeing – Kataphatic and Apophatic Ways of Knowing

open access: yesInternational Handbooks of Religion and Education, 2009
Many ways of “knowing” are routinely neglected in the primary, secondary and tertiary environments, not only in religious education but in many other subject areas and disciplines. This chapter explores a relatively unknown framework of “knowing” in spirituality and education in relation to two complementary approaches—kataphatic (visible, quantifiable)
Peter Mudge
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Imagery, Prayer, and Mind Wandering: Kataphatic Prayer

open access: yes, 2023
Mind wandering—reduced attention to external events—during prayer could pose a problem for Christians. However, different types of prayer make different cognitive demands. Kataphatic prayer, a common type of evangelical Christian prayer, makes use of mental imagery in hopes of experiencing God in a richer sense.
Duah, Martha M.O., Duah, Martha M. O.
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Christian Apophatic and Kataphatic Mysticisms

Theological Studies, 1978
A RNOLD TOYNBEE once predicted that "when the historian of a thoujtJL sand years from now comes to write the history of our time, he will be preoccupied not with the Vietnam war, not with the struggle between capitalism and communism, not with racial strife, but with what happened when for the first time Christianity and Buddhism began to penetrate one
Harvey D Egan
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Beyond Image: The Apophatic-Kataphatic Dialectic in Teresa de Avila

Hispania, 2001
Catholicism distinguishes between two different approaches to spirituality. Apophatic, or negative spirituality stresses interiority, imageless-ness and wordlessness. Kataphatic, or positive spirituality is image-driven and uses analogies to speak of God. Teresa de Avila draws on both traditions.
Barbara Mujica
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Raised a Teenage Kataphatic

Journal of Youth and Theology, 2015
The framework for this study comes from the historical and contextual theory ofapophaticandkataphaticspiritual typologies within the “Circle of Sensibility” espoused by spiritual type theorists. This study analyses seven years of collected data, comparing spiritual type similarities and differences of late adolescent students at a private Christian ...
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