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Silence and the Word : Negative Theology and Incarnation
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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 important 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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521817189
- ISBN-10: 0521817188
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: August 2002
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.69 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.15 pounds
- Page Count: 240
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