Jabarkan Teologi negatif dari Maimonides dalam bahasa melayu

Prinsip ini yang mengilhami aktiviti falsafahnya, serupa dengan rukun asas Skolastisisme: tiada pertentangan antara kebenaran yang diwahyukan Tuhan dan pencarian minda manusia dalam sains dan falsafah. Maimonides terutama sekali bergantung pada sains Aristotle dan ajaran Talmud, umumnya menemui asas dalam yang terdahulu bagi yang terkemudian. Bagaimana pun, dalam beberapa titik penting, dia menyimpang dari ajaran Aristotle; sebagai contoh, dia menolak doktrin Aristotelianisme yang menyatakan bahawa jagaan hemat Tuhan hanya mencakupi kemanusiaan sahaja, bukan perseorangan.

Maimonides was led by his admiration for the neo-Platonic commentators to maintain many doctrines which the Scholastics could not accept. For instance, Maimonides was an adherent of "negative theology" (also known as "Apophatic theology".) In this theology, one attempts to describe God through negative attributes. For instance, one should not say that God exists in the usual sense of the term; all we can safely say is that God is not non-existent. We should not say that "God is wise"; but we can say that "God is not ignorant," i.e. in some way, God has some properties of knowledge. We should not say that "God is One," but we can state that "there is no multiplicity in God's being." In brief, the attempt is to gain and express knowledge of God by describing what God is not; rather than by describing what God "is."

The Scholastics agreed with him that no predicate is adequate to express the nature of God; but they did not go so far as to say that no term can be applied to God in the affirmative sense. They admitted that while "eternal," "omnipotent," etc., as we apply them to God, are inadequate, at the same time we may say "God is eternal" etc., and need not stop, as Moses did, with the negative "God is not not-eternal," etc.  In essence what Maimonides wanted to express is that when people give God anthropomorphic qualities they do not explain anything more of what God is, because we cannot know anything of the essence of God.

Maimonides' use of apophatic theology is not unique to this time period or to Judaism. For example, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor, Eastern Christian theologians, developed apophatic theology for Christianity nearly 900 years earlier. See Negative theology for uses in other religions.