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cataphatic (en)

(adj) (of knowledge of God) obtained through defining God with positive statements.

Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen
by multiple authors (editors)

Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen
by multiple authors (editors)

Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen
by multiple authors (editors)


Positive theology speaks claims about the divine - that God is Father, love, beauty, good. This, the via positivia, the positive way, is called cataphatic, from the Greek for 'affirmation'.

—p.120 Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism (115) by China Miéville
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