Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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cataphatism | Yes | No | No | No |
doctrine of analogy | Yes | No | No | No |
cataphatism (noun) | doctrine of analogy (noun) |
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the religious belief that God has given enough clues to be known to humans positively and affirmatively (e.g., God created Adam `in his own image') | the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate |