God as Nothing: Why 'Does God exist?' may be the wrong question
Language: English
Published by Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd, 2025
- Softcover
- New
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"Gilbert Markus's riveting little book on the nothingness of God simultaneously allures, teases, and destabilises the reader into a profoundly 'apophatic' understanding of what it means to accept God as creator and source of all being. In the spirit of his revered teacher Herbert McCabe, OP, but as yet further radicalised through Markus s own particular Wittgensteinian rendition of Aquinas, it is concluded that there is nothing whatever that we can know or say about God in Godself. Our job is to live the life enjoined on us by the prophets and Jesus, and leave behind the misguided attempt to establish God s existence as a riposte to atheism. Intentionally provocative in its creative new exposition of the Christian tradition, this book will provoke much stimulus for debate in schools, colleges and churches." (Sarah Coakley, Norris-Hulse Professor emerita, University of Cambridge) "Márkus has an engaging way with words and a playful approach to how language works towards God as Nothing . This is analytic theology at its most accessible." (Bishop John Saxbee, 'Church Times').…
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- Title
- God as Nothing: Why 'Does God exist?' may be the wrong question
- Author
- Markus, Gilbert
- Publisher
- Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1917362048
- ISBN 13
- 9781917362047
A highly original new book that challenges the underlying assumption of both believers and atheists that their arguments depend on proof that God either exists or that God doesn’t exist
- Deftly underscores a long tradition in Jewish and Christian writings of viewing ‘God’ not as a particular entity, but as the mystery which underlies all that exists
- Allows a more fruitful dialogue when talking about God cantered around justice, peace and compassion
God as Nothing challenges the underlying assumption of both believers and atheists that their arguments depend on proof that God either exists or that God doesn’t exist. Gilbert Márkus demonstrates a long tradition in Jewish and Christian writings of viewing ‘God’ not as a particular entity, but as the mystery which underlies all that exists. This may develop into a way of talking about God which allows fruitful dialogue and – perhaps above all – a shared engagement in seeking ‘the things of God’: justice, peace and compassion.
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