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Apophatic Bodies - Negative Theology, Incarnation, and Relationality (Paperback)
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Apophatic Bodies - Negative Theology, Incarnation, and Relationality (Paperback)
Series: Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
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The ancient doctrine of negative theology or apophasis-the attempt
to describe God by speaking only of what cannot be said about the
divine perfection and goodness-has taken on new life in the concern
with language and its limits that preoccupies much postmodern
philosophy, theology, and related disciplines. How does this
mystical tradition intersect with the concern with material bodies
that is simultaneously a focus in these areas? This volume pursues
the unlikely conjunction of apophasis and the body, not for the
cachet of the "cutting edge" but rather out of an ethical passion
for the integrity of all creaturely bodies as they are caught up in
various ideological mechanisms-religious, theological, political,
economic-that threaten their dignity and material well-being. The
contributors, a diverse collection of scholars in theology,
philosophy, history, and biblical studies, rethink the relationship
between the concrete tradition of negative theology and apophatic
discourses widely construed. They further endeavor to link these to
the theological theme of incarnation and more general issues of
embodiment, sexuality, and cosmology. Along the way, they engage
and deploy the resources of contextual and liberation theology,
post-structuralism, postcolonialism, process thought, and feminism.
The result not only recasts the nature and possibilities of
theological discourse but explores the possibilities of academic
discussion across and beyond disciplines in concrete engagement
with the well-being of bodies, both organic and inorganic. The
volume interrogates the complex capacities of religious discourse
both to threaten and positively to draw upon the material
well-being of creation.
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