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{{Short description|Theology that uses "positive" terminology}}{{Philosophy of religion sidebar}}Cataphatic theology or kataphatic theology is theology that uses "positive" terminology to describe or refer to the divine â specifically, God â i.e. terminology that describes or refers to what the divine is believed to be, in contrast to the "negative" terminology used in apophatic theology to indicate what it is believed the divine is not.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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Etymology
"Cataphatic" comes from the Greek word καÏάÏαÏÎ¹Ï kataphasis meaning "affirmation,"WEB,weblink Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, καÏάÏα^ÏιÏ, coming from καÏά kata (an intensifier)WEB,weblink Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, καÏά, and Ïάναι phanai ("to speak").Terminology
{{unreferenced section|date=August 2021}}To speak of God or the divine kataphatically is thought by some to be by its nature a form of limiting to God or divine. This was one of the core tenets of the works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. By defining what God or the divine is we limit the unlimited. A kataphatic way to express God would be that God is love. The apophatic way would be to state that God is not hate (although such description can be accused of the same dualism). Or to say that God is not love, as he transcends even our notion of love. Ultimately, one would come to remove even the notion of the Trinity, or of saying that God is one, because divine is above numberhood. That God is beyond all duality because God contains within himself all things and that God is beyond all things. The apophatic way as taught by Saint Dionysus was to remove any conceptual understanding of God that could become all-encompassing, since in its limitedness that concept would begin to force the fallen understanding of mankind onto the absolute and divine.{{Christian mysticism}}Eastern Orthodoxy
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, kataphatic theology can lead to some knowledge of God, but in an imperfect way. The perfect and only way which is fitting in regard of God is the apophatic way, as the kataphatic way has as its object that which exists, but God is beyond all existing.Vladimir Lossky, The Mystical Theology of the Orthodox Church (1957 [1944]), page 25.Roman Catholicism
- The Life of Moses - Gregory of Nyssa
- St. Augustine
- Anselm of Canterbury
Cataphatic treatment of ultimate reality in Buddhism
Within Mahayana Buddhism, there is a species of scripture which essays a descriptive hint of Ultimate Reality by using positive terminology when speaking of it. This manifestation of Buddhism is particularly marked in the Dzogchen and Tathagatagarbha forms of the religion. Nirvana, for example, is equated with the True Self of the Buddha (pure, uncreated and deathless) in some of the Tathagatagarbha scriptures, and in other Buddhist tantras (such as the Kunjed Gyalpo or 'All-Creating King' tantra), the Primordial Buddha, Samantabhadra, is described as 'pure and total consciousness' - the 'trunk', 'foundation' and 'root' of all that exists.The Supreme Source: The Fundamental Tantra of the Dzogchen Semde Kunjed Gyalpo, by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu and Adriano Clemente, Snow Lion, Ithaca, 1999, p. 157.In Gaudiya-vaishnavism
Gaudiya Vaishnavism speaks positively about transcendental qualities of Krishna. He has 64 transcendental qualities as Supreme Personality of Godhead, although these qualities are explained as non-material and beyond duality.WEB,weblink ÅrÄ« Caitanya-caritÄmá¹ta, Madhya-lÄ«lÄ 25.54, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupÄda, 13 July 2021, The paradoxical nature of Krishna, the Absolute, being both beyond description and having qualities is discussed throughout the Gaudiya Vaishnavism literature.WEB,weblink Ká¹á¹¢á¹A, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Chapter 87, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupÄda, 13 July 2021, Among the 64 qualities of Krishna, 4 qualities are unique, which only Krishna has, these are:- He is the performer of wonderful varieties of pastimes (especially His childhood pastimes).
- He is surrounded by devotees endowed with wonderful love of Godhead.
- He can attract all living entities all over the universes by playing on His flute.
- He has a wonderful excellence of beauty which cannot be rivaled anywhere in the creation.
- He has inconceivable potency.
- Uncountable universes generate from His body.
- He is the original source of all incarnations.
- He is the giver of salvation to the enemies whom He kills.
- He is the attractor of liberated souls.
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References
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- Vladimir Lossky The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (1957 [1944]), reprints: SVS Press, 1997 ({{ISBN|0-913836-31-1}}), James Clarke & Co Ltd, 1991 ({{ISBN|0-227-67919-9}}).
- Clarence Edwin Rolt, Dionysius the Areopagite on the Divine Names and the Mystical Theology (1920).
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