Silence and the Word: Negative Theology and Incarnation

by Denys Turner and Oliver Davies

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521067391
• ISBN13: 9780521067393
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"