represent it.”21 In the history of God-talk, there are what are referred to as cataphatic theology and apophatic theology. Cataphatic theology is affirmative by design, occurring whenever we assert what God is. Nevertheless, as long as God-talk remains analogical, our cataphatic excitement must be tamed by the wisdom of its older sister, apophatic theology, which describes God by what he is not (God is not x, y, and z). This approach is sometimes referred to as the via negativa or via negationis, the way of negation, because it is asserting something true about God by denying something false
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