Speech and Theology: Language and the Logic of Incarnation

by James K.A. Smith and K. Smith James

Book Overview

God is infinite, but language finite; thus speech would seem to condemn Him to finitude. In speaking of God, would the theologian violate divine transcendence by reducing God to immanence, or choose, rather, to remain silent? At stake in this argument is a core problem of the conditions of divine revelation. How, in terms of language and the limitations of human understanding, can transcendence ever be made known? Does its very appearance not undermine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415276969
• ISBN13: 9780415276962
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.4"