{"id":2794,"date":"2007-12-03T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/dddblog\/2007\/12\/03\/apophatic-and-kataphatic-prayer.html"},"modified":"2022-07-26T11:37:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T16:37:48","slug":"apophatic-and-kataphatic-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/apophatic-and-kataphatic-prayer.html","title":{"rendered":"Apophatic and Kataphatic Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Apparently the emergent movement is redefining prayer for us.  It is not enough to know that prayer is communication with God now you  should know the difference between &#8220;apophatic&#8221; and &#8220;kataphatic&#8221; prayer. Well don&#8217;t panic, Eugene Peterson explains it all for us. Kataphatic prayer is praying with the eyes open and apohpatic  prayer is praying with the eyes closed. Somehow all this profound  wisdom reminds me of a old commercial. The one where they show eggs  frying and equate it with your brain on drugs. You read the article and see where  it takes you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More Books and Things&#8230;: A Thing called <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Apophatic<\/span> Prayer<br \/>\n&#8220;<span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">kataphatic<\/span> prayer employs thoughts and images while <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">apophatic<\/span> transcends these. And that the Cloud of Unknowing will give us a clear, concise and convincing statement on what is &#8216;<span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">apophatic<\/span>&#8216; prayer, which is about rising ecstatically within the Cloud of Unknowing, where one can know God by simply letting one&#8217;s mind rest in the consciousness of God in His naked existence, where, in this state of being beyond conscious awareness, one does not know or even care who or what God is. One is simply satisfied with the Lord as He exists at this moment in a relational union with oneself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the emergent movement is redefining prayer for us. It is not enough to know that prayer is communication with God now you should know the difference between &#8220;apophatic&#8221; and &#8220;kataphatic&#8221; prayer. Well don&#8217;t panic, Eugene Peterson explains it all for us. Kataphatic prayer is praying with the eyes open and apohpatic prayer is praying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,18,98,29],"tags":[100,352,56,150],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discernment","category-emergingemergent-church","category-post-modern","category-psychology-in-the-church","tag-contemplative-spirituality","tag-discernment","tag-emergent","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-J4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}