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Negative theology

LC control no.sh 99000302
Topical headingNegative theology
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Variant(s)Apophatic theology
Via negativa (Theology)
See alsoTheology
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Mysticism
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Found inThe 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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