Usually means: Affirmative description of the divine.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (cataphatic)

adjective:  (theology) Pertaining to the expression of God in terms of what God is, rather than in terms of what God is not (apophatic).
adjective:  (by extension) That which actively defines a thing by describing what it is characteristic thereof.

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