TY - BOOK ID - 6906994 TI - Speech and theology PY - 2002 SN - 0415276969 9780415276962 9780415276955 0415276950 0203995279 9780203995273 0203463242 9780203463246 113447394X 1283642220 1280112352 1134473931 PB - London New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Christianity KW - Incarnation. KW - Language and languages KW - Philosophy. KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity. KW - 21*015 KW - Theologie en taal KW - 21*015 Theologie en taal KW - Incarnation KW - Foreign languages KW - Languages KW - Anthropology KW - Communication KW - Ethnology KW - Information theory KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Philology KW - Linguistics KW - Kenosis (Theology) KW - Philosophy KW - Religious aspects&delete& KW - Christianity and language KW - Christianity - Philosophy. KW - Language and languages - Religious aspects - Christianity. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6906994 AB - God is infinite, but language finite; thus speech would seem to condemn Him to finitude. In speaking of God, would the theologian violate divine transcendence by reducing God to immanence, or choose, rather, to remain silent? At stake in this argument is a core problem of the conditions of divine revelation. How, in terms of language and the limitations of human understanding, can transcendence ever be made known? Does its very appearance not undermine its transcendence, its condition of unknowability?Speech and Theology posits that the paradigm for the encounter between the material and the divine, or the immanent and transcendent, is found in the Incarnation: God's voluntary self-immersion in the human world as an expression of His love for His creation. By this key act of grace, hinged upon Christs condescension to human finitude, philosophy acquires the means not simply to speak of perfection, which is to speak theologically, but to bridge the gap between word and thing in general sense. ER -