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James K. A. Smith, "Speech and Theology: Language and the Logic of Incarnation" (Routledge Radical Orthodoxy)

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: Language and the Logic of Incarnation 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 Christ’s 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 a general sense. Responding to the works of Augustine, Husserl, and Heidegger through the lens of contemporary French phenomenologists such as Derrida, Levinas, and Marion, Speech and Theology reconsiders the perennial theological challenge of speaking of God, as traditionally reflected by devotional poles of predication and silence and of confession and praise. In the process, it passionately asserts two central truths: first, that God demands the effort of speech – that we are compelled to speak of God because he, in the Incarnation, has first spoken – and, consequently, that theology cannot properly choose silence in the pursuit of worship in view of its urgent need of words to make God visible. From the revolutionary assertion that God’s incarnation is the condition of possibility not only for theological language but for language generally, James K. A. Smith creates a new Christian phenomenology where divine love ultimately functions as the ground for an affirmation of embodiment and materiality, and in which Christ’s bodily endowment of worldly signs with the full reality of his own infinitude signals the basis for an entirely new theology of the arts.

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