Sunday, May 31, 2009

Apophatic Deism

Apophatic theology -- from wiki

"is a theology that attempts to describe God by negation, to speak of God only in terms of what may not be said about God.

In brief, the attempt is to gain and express knowledge of God by describing what God is not (apophasis), rather than by describing what God is. The apophatic tradition is often, though not always, allied with the approach of mysticism, which focuses on a spontaneous or cultivated individual experience of the divine reality beyond the realm of ordinary perception, an experience often unmediated by the structures of traditional organized religion or learned thought and behavior."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophatic_theology

So, minimal deism could be called apophatic deism. god as answer to the question "what created reality?" and leave it at that.

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