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Negative Theology and Philosophical Analysis

Part of the Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-49602-9

ISBN: 978-3-030-49601-2

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 18, 2020

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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God Beyond Words

Hewitt, Simon

Pages: 1 –18

[Apophatic, or negative theology, is introduced and is shown to have a solid basis in Christian tradition. A working definition of apophaticism in terms of the doctrine of divine ineffability (DDI) is supplied. DDI is related to the claim that God is transcendent, and distinguished from the...
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Analytic Criticisms of Apophaticism

Hewitt, Simon

Pages: 19 –35

[Objections to apophaticism from recent philosophical literature are discussed and answered. Plantinga’s objection that apophaticism is self-refuting, his view that apophaticism reinterprets and dilutes the content of faith, and an objection examined by Scott, relating to the relationship between...
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Analytic Apophaticisms

Hewitt, Simon

Pages: 37 –54

[Existing analytic formulations of apophaticism, owing to Jacobs and Lebens, are examined. Both are found wanting, but each is instructive for the subsequent development of a new analytic approach to apophaticism. As a result of this engagement I place constraints on this development: that it be...
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Referentialism and Religious Language

Hewitt, Simon

Pages: 55 –70

[Analytic wariness towards apophaticism is diagnosed as issuing from a picture of language, referentialism, according to which reference is the primary and fundamentally explanatory function of language. I show how referentialism sits uncomfortably with apophaticism, before going on to argue that...
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Grammatical Thomism

Hewitt, Simon

Pages: 71 –87

[A use-based view of language is used to motivate a version of ‘grammatical thomism’. The meaning of the word ‘God’ is elucidated through its use to answer radical questions about existence. Objections to this approach are answered and it is shown that the view permits a form of natural theology...
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The Grammar of God-Talk

Hewitt, Simon

Pages: 89 –108

[The extent to which a grammatical thomist way-in to God-talk necessitates apophaticism is laid out, through attention to the doctrine of divine simplicity. God is radically dissimilar from creatures, and occupies no shared logical space with them. As a consequence, many attempts to speak of God...
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Speaking of God: Truthfully and Devotedly

Hewitt, Simon

Pages: 109 –125

[The theologian committed to apophaticism, formulated as DDI, can still account for truthful and useful talk concerning God. This chapter sketches how true talk of God might be understood, in classical fashion, as analogical, where analogy is understood in terms of extending a pattern of use. The...
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Is God a Person?

Hewitt, Simon

Pages: 127 –142

[Perhaps the most unwelcome implication of DDI for contemporary philosophical theology is that we cannot predicate personhood of God. I argue that this is nevertheless the right result, using the relationships between personhood, animality, and language to make the case that God is not a person....
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Incarnation and Trinity

Hewitt, Simon

Pages: 143 –159

[Some philosophers, notably Plantinga, have argued that apophaticism is incompatible with substantial doctrinal commitment. This chapter maintains that, far from this being the case, negative theology enables us to dissolve philosophical disputes around the doctrines of the Incarnation and the...
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Politics, Kingdom, Beatific Vision

Hewitt, Simon

Pages: 161 –176

[Drawing on themes from McCabe, this chapter shows how apophaticism helps the formulation of a significant political theology with an adequate account of human freedom. The considerations brought to bear on this are then used to discuss God’s providential guidance of creation, before concluding...

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