Silence and the Word negative theology and incarnation
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge, UK
Cambridge University Press
2002
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-225) and index Introduction / Oliver Davies and Denys Turner -- 1. Apophaticism, idolatry and the claims of reason / Denys Turner -- 2. The quest for a place which is "not-a-place" : the hiddenness of God and the presence of God / Paul S. Fiddes -- 3. The gift of the Name : Moses and the burning bush / Janet Martin Soskice -- 4. Aquinas on the Trinity / Herbert McCabe -- 5. Vere tu es Deus absconditus : the hidden God in Luther and some mystics / Bernard McGinn -- 6. The deflections of desire : negative theology in trinitarian disclosure / Rowan Williams -- 7. The formation of mind : Trinity and understanding in Newman / Mark A. McIntosh -- 8. "In the daylight forever?" : language and silence / Graham Ward -- 9. Apophasis and the Shoah : where was Jesus Christ at Auschwitz? / David F. Ford -- 10. Soundings : towards a theological poetics of silence / Oliver Davies 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 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. --From publisher's description |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 227 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0511042698 0511054440 0511487657 0521817188 9780511042690 9780511054440 9780511487651 9780521817189 |