Silence and the Word: Negative Theology and Incarnation

by Oliver Davies (Editor), Denys Turner (Editor)

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.

Genres: Theology

Kindle Edition

First published August 14, 1998

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For the British crime author see Oliver Davies