The critique of ontotheology reminds us of the dangers of granting autonomy to
assertoric speech acts when it comes to talking about God. Too easily our God-talk can
become the attempt to capture God in our conceptual nets rather than a way of offering
ourselves to God in adoration, in gratitude, and in obedient service. But the insights of
apophaticism do not require the abolition of assertion. Predication must yield to praise
not by disappearing but by placing itself humbly at the service of a love that goes beyond
knowing.
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