This book is the fruit of a close collaboration between three leading scholars with a background in systematics, philosophical theology and ethics. It sets out a new account of how incarnation is mediated in the world of space and time, leading to a new orientation of theology within the world. The doctrinal ("from above") and philosophical ("from below") sections lead to a new exposition of Christian life in confrontation with deepseated problems of ethics and justice. The three pieces closely interweave with each other in the elaboration of a new kind of practical, doctrinal theology of...
This book is the fruit of a close collaboration between three leading scholars with a background in systematics, philosophical theology and ethics. It...
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...
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," "d...
