Oliver Davies is Reader in Philosophical Theology in the University of Wales and has written a number of studies of Christian mystical writers, including Meister Eckhart: Mystical Theologian (SPCK 1991). The first volume of his Systematic Theology in three parts appeared as A Theology of Compassion (SCM Press 2001), and the second volume, On the Creativity of God, is currently under preparation.
Preface
Notes on contributors
Introduction Oliver Davies and Denys Turner
1. Apophaticism, idolatory and the claims of reason Denys Turner
2. The quest for a place which is 'not-a-place': the hiddenness of God and the presence of God Paul S. Fiddes
3. The gift of the name: Moses and the burning bush Janet Martin Soskice
4. Aquinas on the Trinity Herbert McCabe
5. Vere tu es deus absconditus: the hidden God in Luther and some mystics Bernard McGinn
6. The deflections of desire: negative theology in Trinitarian disclosure Rowan Williams
7. The formation of mind: Trinity and understanding in Newman Mark A. McIntosh
8. 'In the daylight forever?': language and silence Graham Ward
9. Apophasis and the Shoah: where was Jesus Christ at Auschwitz? David F. Ford
10. Soundings: towards a theological poetics of silence Oliver Davies
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