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In contrast, making positive statements about the nature of God, which occurs in most Western forms of Christian theology, is sometimes called cataphatic theology.

Eastern Christianity makes use of both apophatic and cataphatic theology.

Adherents of the apophatic tradition in Christianity hold that, outside of directly-revealed knowledge through Scripture and Sacred Tradition ( such as the Trinitarian nature of God ), God in His essence is beyond the limits of what human beings ( or even angels ) can understand ; He is transcendent in essence ( ousia ).

Further knowledge must be sought in a direct experience of God or His indestructible energies through theoria ( vision of God ).

In Eastern Christianity, God is immanent in his hypostasis or existences.