Silence and the Word : negative theology and incarnation / edited by Oliver Davies and Denys Turner.
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, ot...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Summary: | 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 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. --From publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-225) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511042698 9780511042690 0511054440 9780511054440 9780521817189 0521817188 9780511487651 0511487657 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |