Antonyms of noun doctrine_of_analogy

1 sense of doctrine of analogy

Sense 1
doctrine of analogy, analogy -- (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)
       Antonym of apophatism (Sense 1)
      => apophatism -- (the religious belief that God cannot be known but is completely `other' and must be described in negative terms (in terms of what God is not))
       Antonym of cataphatism (Sense 1)
      => cataphatism -- (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'))

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun doctrine_of_analogy

1 sense of doctrine of analogy

Sense 1
doctrine of analogy, analogy -- (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)
       => religion, faith, religious belief -- (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality")

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