Silence and the Word
Silence and the Word
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Negative theology or apophasis--the idea that God is best identified in terms of what we cannot know about him, in terms of "absence", "otherness", "difference"--has been influentiual in modern Christian thought, resonating as it does with secular notions of absence, otherness and difference developed in recent continental philosophy. Leading Christian thinkers now offer a range of important new perspectives on this tradition, both historical and contemporary, to show how a dimension of negativity has characterized not only traditional mysticism but most forms of Christian thought over the years.
- Important new perspectives on negative theology
- Relates theology to developments in continental philosophy
- Broad historical coverage including mysticism and other traditions
Reviews & endorsements
"[Davies and Turner's] contributions helpfully suggest ways in which the doctrines of the trinity and the incarnation, far from subverting negative theology, provide the conceptual framework within which Christians become most fully aware of language's inability to encompass or exhaust divinity." Religious Studies Review
"Almost every essay in this fine collection is worth reading, and some are worth intense study. Kudos to Davies and Turner for compiling a collection that shows that living into God means not dogmatic triumphalism but patient humility before the plenitude of a mystery of love that is always before us and behind us, holding us but never allowing us to kill her by holding too tightly to her with our merely human concepts." Modern Theology
"In terms of writing, intellectual penetration, and coverage of a topic, this is in every way a superior collection." - Cyril O'Regan, The University of Notre Dame
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January 2005Adobe eBook Reader
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction Oliver Davies and Denys Turner
- 1. Apophaticism, idolatory and the claims of reason Denys Turner
- 2. The quest for a place which is 'not-a-place': the hiddenness of God and the presence of God Paul S. Fiddes
- 3. The gift of the name: Moses and the burning bush Janet Martin Soskice
- 4. Aquinas on the Trinity Herbert McCabe
- 5. Vere tu es deus absconditus: the hidden God in Luther and some mystics Bernard McGinn
- 6. The deflections of desire: negative theology in Trinitarian disclosure Rowan Williams
- 7. The formation of mind: Trinity and understanding in Newman Mark A. McIntosh
- 8. 'In the daylight forever?': language and silence Graham Ward
- 9. Apophasis and the Shoah: where was Jesus Christ at Auschwitz? David F. Ford
- 10. Soundings: towards a theological poetics of silence Oliver Davies
- Select bibliography.
