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Silence and the Word: Negative Theology and Incarnation

By Oliver Davies , Denys Turner

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0521067391, 9780521067393
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (7866851 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
241\241
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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.

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