Apophatic theology involves defining or knowing God through negative statements.

The Orthodox tradition of apophatic, or negative, theology holds that none of our concepts can properly be affirmed of God, who transcends all human concepts. 遵循否定进路传统的东正教神学认为，凡人提出的任何概念都不可能得到上帝的肯定，因为上帝超越了所有人类的理性。