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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