“The only thing I know, is that which I do not”
Apophatic theology: “Apophatic”,
Ancient Greek: απόφασις (adjective); from απόφημι apophēmi, meaning “to deny”.
“That there is a God is clear; but what He is by essence and nature, this is altogether beyond our comprehension and knowledge.”
Saint John of Damascus
Apophatic theology, also known as negative theology, is a form of theological thinking and religious practice which attempts to approach God, the Divine, by negation, to speak only in terms of what may not be said about the perfect goodness that is God. It forms a pair together with cataphatic theology, which approaches God or the Divine by affirmations or positive statements about what God is.
A theology of negation, which is a “religious attitude toward the incomprehensibility of God [that] enables us to transcend all concepts, every sphere of philosophical enquiry.”
