Silence and the Word: Negative Theology and Incarnation

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Oliver Davies, Denys Turner
Cambridge University Press, 15.08.2002 - 227 Seiten
Negative theology or apophasis - the idea that God is best identified in terms of 'absence', 'otherness', 'difference' - has been influential in modern Christian thought, resonating as it does with secular notions of negation developed in continental philosophy. Apophasis also has a strong intellectual history dating back to the early Church Fathers. Silence and the Word both studies the history of apophasis and examines its relationship with contemporary secular philosophy. Leading Christian thinkers explore in their own way the extent to which the concept of the apophatic illumines some of the deepest doctrinal structures of Christian faith, and of Christian self-understanding both in terms of its historical and contemporary situatedness, showing how a dimension of negativity has characterised not only traditional mysticism but most forms of Christian thought over the years.
 

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Introduction
1
1 Apophaticism idolatry and the claims of reason
11
the hiddenness of God and the presence of God
35
Moses and the bu ning bush
61
4 Aquinas on the Trinity
76
the hidden God in Luther and some mystics
94
negative theology in trinitarian disclosure
115
Trinity and understanding in Newman
136
language and silence
159
where was Jesus Christ at Auschwitz?
185
towards a theological poetics of silence
201
Select bibliograp y
223
Index
226
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Oliver Davies is Reader in Philosophical Theology in the University of Wales and has written a number of studies of Christian mystical writers, including Meister Eckhart: Mystical Theologian (SPCK 1991). The first volume of his Systematic Theology in three parts appeared as A Theology of Compassion (SCM Press 2001), and the second volume, On the Creativity of God, is currently under preparation.

Denys Turner is the Norris-Hulse Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of Cambridge and former H. G.Wood Professor at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of On the Philosophy of Karl Marx (Sceptre, 1969), Marxism and Christianity (Blackwell, 1983) and The Darkness of God (CUP, 1995). He is currently working on a book on Thomas Aquinas and the doctrine of God.

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