Helen Stanton is very good on the apophatic tradition:
Telling the truth: that we do not know, cannot understand, but recognise that God is in that place of darkness as much as in God’s glorious light. This is, I think, one of our resources when our equations fail as our words do. And it is important for others too. Staying with the not knowing about the planet shares some resonance of God’s solidarity with God’s suffering creation in Jesus Christ. Thomas Trahern wrote of God’s dazzling darkness, as if the darkness of God is indeed somehow light. Isaiah (43:3) wrote of the treasures of the darkness, hinting that there is something about the dark that enables us to know God. And in the darkness of despair, of destruction, of boredom, of plain nothingness, God is also present. God’s presence isn’t like the switch of a light. All is not easy and bearable. God bears, and we too must bear, that which must be borne.
