Negative Theology

There has been a very strong trend among various religious thinkers in different part of the world which is known as negative theology. These thinkers believe that we can grasp no affirmative knowledge of God and therefore He should not be described positively. He should be described only through negation, and the negative attributes as regard the essence of god tell us what He is, except it be indirectly. So every positive attribute of Him must be understood negatively. This paper deals with this attitude, its reasons and the difficulties that it is confronted with. To have a correct assessment of negative theology we will try to determine the exact place of this attitude among other different attitudes.