Indiscretion: Finitude and the Naming of God

by Thomas A. Carlson and Professor Thomas A. Carlson

Book Overview

How can one think and name an inconceivable and ineffable God? Christian mystics have approached the problem by speaking of God using "negative" language--devices such as grammatical negation and the rhetoric of "darkness" or "unknowing"--and their efforts have fascinated contemporary scholars. In this strikingly original work, Thomas A. Carlson reinterprets premodern approaches to God's ineffability and postmodern approaches to the mystery of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226092941
• ISBN13: 9780226092942
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"