@article{1477709,
      recid = {1477709},
      author = {Boesel, Chris,  and Boesel, Chris,  and Burrus, Virginia,   and Caputo, John D.,  and Clayton, Philip,  and Dickinson,  T. Wilson,  and Dunn, Rose Ellen,  and Faber, Roland,  and  Gudmarsdottir, Sigridur,  and Hughes, Krista E.,  and  Keller, Catherine,  and Mackendrick, Karmen,  and Miller,  David L.,  and Miller, Patricia Cox,  and Stang, Charles  M.,  and Tanner, Kathryn,  and Ward, Graham,  and Wolfson,  Elliot R., },
      title = {Apophatic Bodies : Negative Theology, Incarnation, and  Relationality /},
      pages = {1 online resource (448 p.)},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477709},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823290895},
}