VIA NEGATIVA is a technical term for the negative way of theology, which refuses to identify God with any human concept or knowledge, for God transcends all that can be known of him. Yet the term points to the possibility of union with God and the...

Negative theology - also known as the Via Negativa (Latin for "Negative Way") and Apophatic theology - is a theology that attempts to describe God by negation, to speak of God only in terms of what may not be said about God. In brief, the attempt is to...

(ProQuest Information and Learning: ... denotes obscured text omitted.) If I said decisively: "I have seen God," that which I see would change. Instead of the inconceivable unknown-wildly free before me, leaving me wild and free before it-there would be a dead object...

Aquinas uses analogy to balance positive and negative theology in his understanding of God-talk. Aquinas's theological epistemology of analogy is based on theological judgment rather than on concept. The meaning of concepts as applied to the divine cannot be known according to Aquinas; thus...