Negative theology, meanwhile, is sometimes called “apophatic,” because the Greek word for denial is apophasis. Negative theologians are more pessimistic about the prospects of naming, describing, and conceiving God. They point out that if God utterly transcends us and the other things God has created, then our language and concepts are unlikely to apply to Him fully, if at all. In their most pessimistic moments, negative theologians may go so far as to say that we are utterly ignorant concerning God and doomed to remain so.
