The Indescribable God
Divine Otherness in Christian Theology
Synopsis:The God of classical Christian faith is radically transcendent--utterly beyond understanding and words. So if God is to be known it must be in the luminous darkness of unknowing.Drawing on a wide range of primary sources--biblical, patristic, and medieval--Barry D. Smith identifies and explores seven ways of expressing the otherness of God in classical Christian thinking. By allowing historical theologians to speak for themselves, he shows how an aversion to ontotheology long precedes postmodernism.The book first lays out the Old Testament and New Testament foundations for subsequent Christian reflections on divine transcendence. The…
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- ISBN: 978-1-62032-104-1
- EAN: 9781620321041
- Produktnummer: 13971869
- Verlag: Pickwick Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 188 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.0 cm 282 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 282
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