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Negative theology, which declares that we can only state what God is not but not what He is, has its devotees and practitioners in all three Western religions, who consider it to be the most sophisticated form of monotheism. Negative theology is largely derived from Platonic and Neoplatonic materials. From a Platonic perspective, later fleshed out by Aristotle, the One (what was later designated as the Western monotheistic God) emerges as a response to an antecedent question: How can we bring the explanatory quest to a halt? Where can the search for more abstract and comprehensive explanations end? Plato, in…