If we interpret the biblical imagery by negating its specific content (it's not this, not that...)-- what theologians call the [i] via negativa [/ i]-- what is left of it? (firstthings.com)
He simply uses the biblical language to [i] shut down the discussion [/ i] of the [i] via negativa [/ i], which opens the door to his own neo-Aristotelian analysis. (firstthings.com)
For Altizer and Hamilton were on the verge of something powerful — the introduction of the via negativa into the Protestant consciousness and into an American culture that is terrified by the mystic. (religion-online.org)