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Apophatic theology — the via negativa

Apophatic theology (via negativa) approaches the divine by describing what God is not rather than what God is, resting on the conviction that the sacred exceeds human language and concept. It's a discipline in intellectual humility—using negation to point toward something that cannot be contained, familiar to mystics across Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism.

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