This type of reasoning is known as cataphatic theology.

Eastern Christianity makes use of both apophatic and cataphatic theology.

It stands in contrast with cataphatic theology.

Apophatic theology often is contrasted with "Cataphatic theology."

In Orthodox theology, apophatic theology is taught as superior to cataphatic theology.

In western Christianity it was a counter-current tot the prevailing Cataphatic theology or "positive theology".

The Sufis greatly depend on the use of ta'til in their spirituality, though they often also use Cataphatic theology.

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

He is most known for his Christian memoir writing and poetry, and is one of the leading contemporary proponents of "Romantic Theology," cataphatic theology applied to heterosexual relationships, and typified in marriage.

The latter conception defines God through a series of explicit positive statements called cataphatic theology, themselves universal but in the divine taken to their superlative degrees: as well as being explicitly male, he is omniscient and omnipotent.

He here builds on the cataphatic theology he first argued in a 2005 article: "rather than dogmatically organizing our relationships around chastity, Christian lovers should emphasize the very Figure of their faith and let the details of their relationships consequently fall in place."

It is characterized by monotheistic Trinitarianism, belief in the Incarnation of the Logos (Son of God), a balancing of cataphatic theology with apophatic theology, a hermeneutic defined by Sacred Tradition, a concrete ecclesiology, a robust theology of the person, and a therapeutic soteriology.