Davies O.,Turner D. (eds.) Silence and the Word: Negative Theology and Incarnation

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. — 2008. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0521067391; ISBN13: 978-0521067393.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.Notes on contributorsIntroduction (Oliver Davies and Denys Turner)
Apophaticism, idolatry and the claims of reason (Denys Turner)
The quest for a place which is 'not-a-place': the hiddenness of God and the presence of God (Paul S. Fiddes)
The gift of the Name: Moses and the burning bush (Janet Martin Soskice)
Aquinas on the Trinity (Herbert McCabe)
Vere tu es Deus absconditus: the hidden God in Luther and some mystics (Bernard McGinn)
The deflections of desire: negative theology in trinitarian disclosure (Rowan Williams)
The formation of mind: Trinity and understanding in Newman (Mark A. Mcintosh)
"In the daylight forever?': language and silence (Graham Ward)
Apophasis and the Shoah: where was Jesus Christ at Auschwitz? (David F Ford)
Soundings: towards a theological poetics of silence (Oliver Dairies)Select bibliography