God, Mystery, and Mystification. By Denys Turner
This volume of eight loosely linked essays, most of them previously unpublished, is about ‘the mystery of God and about how to tell it apart from merely idolatrous mystifications’. Turner starts the volume by way of an apology for leading some people to think, ‘perhaps as a result of a certain loose...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 1004-1007 |
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| Summary: | This volume of eight loosely linked essays, most of them previously unpublished, is about ‘the mystery of God and about how to tell it apart from merely idolatrous mystifications’. Turner starts the volume by way of an apology for leading some people to think, ‘perhaps as a result of a certain looseness of terminology on my part’, that he claimed priority for negative forms of theological speech over affirmations. While his famous book The Darkness of God examines apophatic discourse, he points out here that affirmative speech also itself ‘collapses into unknowing simply under the weight of its affirmative excess.’ One of the thrilling things about reading Denys Turner is that, together with the clarity of his writing and the reasoned strength of his arguments which carry you through his essays, there is always the sense of the lived experience of faith under his writings. He talks movingly here of the ‘stunned silence before God in that place in the soul where it is at last at prayer.’ |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flaa137 |