What does via negativa mean?

via negativa

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English

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"The medieval Roman Catholic Church recognized two opposite roads to grace: the via negativa of the monk's cell and the hermit's cave, and the via affirmativa of immersion in human affairs, of being in the world whether or not one is of it."

via affirmativa

via affirmativa

apophatic theology

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