If we have to think within the limits of language, and if God is beyond these limits, how can we aim at God? The theology of “divine names” is an attempt to meditate on this difficulty. Despite certain distortions inflicted to it by the history of metaphysics, Dionysius’ teaching seeks to articulate together affirmative and negative statements concerning God, and then to exceed them, so as to think God’s transcendence beyond position and negation. And so it aims at God through language, but also beyond all language. It is therefore vain to try to reduce this way of thinking to a pure, or a secret affirmation – just as it is not a simple denial. It is, rather, a path and a spiritual exercise.