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- adverb In an
apophatic way; usingapophasis .
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Examples
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Of course, being a Protestant, a Baptist and a child of the kindly West — and I am nothing else, however apophatically — when I think of the angel, something else comes to mind, and I had to wonder at verse 37 if the angels smile.
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For Jacoby, this “imageless” approach is more respectful of the decisions of individual future actors and grows out of the respectful reluctance to represent or name the deity: it approaches what is good or holy only apophatically — “by negation” (xiv-xvi, 32-36, 147).
Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions 2008
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To approach God apophatically is, hence, to approach God with a heightened sensitivity to the failures of language to say very much about Him at all.
The Influence of Islamic Thought on Maimonides Pessin, Sarah 2005
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Rather, both types of truth/Truth are valuable and vital to humanity and, in turn, the Everything (and the No-Thing, to put it apophatically).
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Rather, both types of truth/Truth are valuable and vital to humanity and, in turn, the Everything (and the No-Thing, to put it apophatically).
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Rather, both types of truth/Truth are valuable and vital to humanity and, in turn, the Everything (and the No-Thing, to put it apophatically).
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We all define ourselves apophatically; we may not always agree on who we are, but we know who we aren't, and we aren't them, whoever they are, no matter what the outcomes say.
Claremont.org 2010
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Rather, both types of truth/Truth are valuable and vital to humanity and, in turn, the Everything (and the No-Thing, to put it apophatically).
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Rather, both types of truth/Truth are valuable and vital to humanity and, in turn, the Everything (and the No-Thing, to put it apophatically).
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Rather, both types of truth/Truth are valuable and vital to humanity and, in turn, the Everything (and the No-Thing, to put it apophatically).
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