... is used, God is not named by it. It does not matter if language is used only to deny things of God for these denials always fall short of the mark and have themselves to be denied. Thus apophaticism creates room for a great deal of affirmative language about God (as long as it is remembered that these affirmations also fall short of the unknowable God)… Predictably, the mystics’ ...

... unspeakable quality of the sacred. This is technically called "Apophatic theology" but is also known as the mystical tradition in Christianity. Taoism is a good non-theistic example of apophaticism: What is the Tao is not the Tao.... you know, that kind of crazy talk. But we've been talking about a sacred outside of tradition. So what is a post-Christian apophatic practice? ...