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What does cataphatic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (theology) Pertaining to the expression of God in terms of what God is, rather than in terms of what God is not (apophatic).
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It is from within this christological context that Maximus's understanding of the relationship between apophatic and cataphatic theology is most profitably interpreted.
The integration of both the apophatic way and the cataphatic way is the best method of attaining the true vision of the divine light.
Some may wonder at her somewhat facile distinction between apophatic and cataphatic prayer, as well as her surprising omissions.
That, I think, is the point of those who hold that apophatic theology and cataphatic theology are really two sides of a single coin.
He argues that apophatic pluralism, in contradistinction to cataphatic religious truth, is the future of religion.
Anselm's theology is excessively cataphatic and rationalist.

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