Originally posted by robrecht
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I think there's room for some degree of apophatic theology in one's faith walk, but there's something very contradictory about saying something like, "all theological statements about God must be negated."
Please don't take offense to what I'm about to say next, because I don't mean to give offense (I know people say that all the time, but I'm being sincere), but it seems to me that there's something sort of slippery about apophaticism. It seems to me like a position an individual can hold, while smugly crossing their arms and saying, "because I make no positive claims about God, I can never be proved wrong". There's something intellectually...off to me about that that I struggle with.
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