Semikolennykh M.V. Otto of Freising in the Tradition of Negative Theology. Vestnik of the Pushkin Leningrad State University, 2009, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 53–63. Semikolennykh M.V. Otto of Freising in the Tradition of Negative Theology. Vestnik of the Pushkin Leningrad State University, 2009, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 53–63.ISSN 1818-6653Posted on site: 05.01.18AbstractThe paper deals with the tradition of apophatic theology and the place of Otto von Freising in it. On the basis of the analysis of the fragment of the Gesta Friderici an attempt is made to illustrate the peculiarity of his interpretation of the problem of the difference between being and existence and their relationships, characterized as the union of opposites (concretio oppositorum).