in a human way. Every attempt to describe him must be rejected. He is neither this, nor that, nor that. This sort of denial, which comes close to mere silence, characterizes the via negationis, or via negativa, as it is also called. But this via negativa, which has lately become a kind of theological “fad,” can hardly be the last word on the subject. At the end of the day, we may still wonder whether, in spite of everything, God does indeed possess the characteristics we attributed to him in the