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Negative theology as Jewish modernity /

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 influential in modern Christian thought. Leading Christian thinkers now offer a range of importan...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Fagenblat, Michael (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Series:New Jewish philosophy and thought
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1 Apophaticism, idolatry and the claims of reason; 2 The quest for a place which is 'not-a-place': the hiddenness of God and the presence of God; 3 The gift of the Name: Moses and the bu ning bush; 4 Aquinas on the Trinity; 5 Vere tu es Deus absconditus: the hidden God in Luther and some mystics; 6 The deflections of desire: negative theology in trinitarian disclosure; 7 The formation of mind: Trinity and understanding in Newman; 8 In the daylight forever?: language and silence.
  • 9 Apophasis and the Shoah: where was Jesus Christ at Auschwitz?10 Soundings: towards a theological poetics of silence; Select bibliograp y; Index.