Silence and the Word: Negative Theology and Incarnation. Edited by Oliver Davies and Denys Turner. Pp. xi + 227. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. isbn 0 521 81718 8. £40/55
At a time when so much Christian rhetoric is given to overstatement it is salutary to be reminded of a strand of Christian thought, particularly associated with the mystical tradition—negative theology or apophasis—which stresses the limitations of language, the way in which language gives out in it...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 806-807 |
| Review of: | Silence and the Word (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002) (Cunliffe, Christopher)
Silence and the word (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002) (Cunliffe, Christopher) |
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| Summary: | At a time when so much Christian rhetoric is given to overstatement it is salutary to be reminded of a strand of Christian thought, particularly associated with the mystical tradition—negative theology or apophasis—which stresses the limitations of language, the way in which language gives out in its attempt to comprehend a God who is best described in terms of absence, otherness, and difference. ‘[T]he silence of the negative way is the silence achieved only at the point at which talk about God has been exhausted. The theologian is, as it were, embarrassed into silence by her very prolixity … Theology, one might say is an excess of babble’, writes Denys Turner in one of the essays in this volume. |
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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/fli237 |