What Theology Can Learn from a Philosophy Daring to Speak the Unspeakable

The central aim of this article is to recommend to the attention of theologians William Desmond's most recent and most explicitly religious text, God and the Between. Desmond is, arguably, Ireland's most distinctive as well as distinguished philosophical voice, and has produced a prodigiou...

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Main Author: O'Regan, Cyril 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2008
In: Irish theological quarterly
Year: 2008, Volume: 73, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 243-262
Further subjects:B Theology
B God
B Philosophy
B between
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