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Negative Theology and Philosophical Analysis Simon Hewitt

Negative Theology and Philosophical Analysis By Simon Hewitt

Negative Theology and Philosophical Analysis by Simon Hewitt


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This book is the first treatment at length of negative, or apophatic, theology within the analytic tradition.

Negative Theology and Philosophical Analysis Summary

Negative Theology and Philosophical Analysis: Only the Splendour of Light by Simon Hewitt

This book is the first treatment at length of negative, or apophatic, theology within the analytic tradition. Apophatic theology holds that there is a significant sense in which we cannot say what God is. Important negative theological elements are present in a host of Christian thinkers, from Gregory of Nyssa to Aquinas, and yet apophaticism is neglected in philosophical theology as practiced within the analytic tradition. By contrast, Hewitt shows how apophatic theology is integral to how Christians have thought about God, and how it can be defended against standard attacks in the philosophical literature.

Hewitt diagnoses the unease with apophaticism amongst contempory philosophical theologicans as rooted in a certain picture of how language functions, here called referentialism. Arguing that this picture is not compulsory, an account of language which sits more comfortably with negative theology (originating from work of later Wittgenstein) is invoked, and applied to key themes in philosophical theology including divine personhood, the Trinity, the Incarnation and the afterlife.


About Simon Hewitt

Simon Hewitt is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Philosophy, Religion and the History of Science at the University of Leeds, UK.

Table of Contents

1. God beyond Words.- 2. Analytic Criticisms of Apophaticsm.- 3. Analytic Apophaticisms.- 4. Representatialism and Religious Language.- 5. Grammatical Thomism.- 6. The Grammar of God-Talk.- 7. Speaking of God: truthfully and devotedly.- 8. Is God a Person?.- 9.Incarnation and Trinity.- 10. Politics, Kingdom, Beatific Vision.

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NLS9783030496043
9783030496043
303049604X
Negative Theology and Philosophical Analysis: Only the Splendour of Light by Simon Hewitt
New
Paperback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2021-08-18
191
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