doctrine of analogy

doctrine of analogy
noun
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
Syn: ↑analogy
Ant: ↑apophatism, ↑cataphatism
Hypernyms: ↑religion, ↑faith, ↑religious belief

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