TY - BOOK ID - 17118928 TI - Silence and the Word : negative theology and incarnation AU - Davies, Oliver AU - Turner, Denys PY - 2002 SN - 0521817188 0521067391 1107126010 0511176864 0511042698 0511157762 0511325614 0511487657 1280434333 0511054440 9780521817189 9780511042690 9780511054440 9780511487651 9780521067393 9781107126015 9781280434334 9780511176869 9780511157769 9780511325618 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Negative theology KW - Christianity KW - Natural theology KW - Christian theology KW - 232.8 KW - -232.8 Jezus Christus als mens. Menswording. Incarnatie KW - Jezus Christus als mens. Menswording. Incarnatie KW - Apophatic theology KW - Via negativa (Theology) KW - 232.8 Jezus Christus als mens. Menswording. Incarnatie KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Religion KW - Negative theology - Christianity - Congresses UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17118928 AB - 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. ER -