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Negative Theology and Philosophical Analysis - Only the Splendour of Light (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Negative Theology and Philosophical Analysis - Only the Splendour of Light (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion
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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.
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