Silence and the Word

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.