dialectical theology

noun phrase

neoorthodoxy especially as holding against rationalism that one's attempts to know God by one's own reasoning reach contradictory conclusions and must give way to a faith that awaits God's word
a name applied to the theological principles of K. Barth and his school, on the ground that it finds the truth in a dialectic apprehension of God which transcends the ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ of the other methods