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God, Mystery, and Mystification distills some of Denys Turner's most essential insights into a few direct, untechnical meditations on classic texts and problems with their center of gravity in late medieval mysticism. Although originating largely from occasional papers, the chapters making up the book qualify each other and cohere into a unified composition through a number of connecting threads running from essay to essay. They meld together well in providing a reader-friendly introduction to negative theology not as an academic discipline but as a way of looking at certain of life's pressing and yet unanswerable questions. --William Franke, Vanderbilt University I have learned much from this remarkable book by Denys Turner. God, Mystery, and Mystification displays Turner's usual high quality and engaging, informal presentation. His approach is philosophical theology with mystical sources; the result is theology renewed. Each one of these chapters is a full-blown study as witty as it is profound: a valedictory tome of an accomplished master. --David Burrell, C.S.C, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Theology, University of Notre Dame

Denys Turner's new collection of essays reveals a master teacher and writer at the height of his powers. Turner has aways shown an interest in music and its relation to theology. Reading these essays is like listening to a set of virtuoso variations on themes that are found throughout Turner's writings: faith and reason; the apophatic and the cataphatic; love and wisdom; materiality and the body; politics in its deep integral sense; and the Eucharist. This book is a major addition to Turner's distinguished list of publications. -Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago Divinity School

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Denys Turner is the Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology at Yale University and a lecturer in religion at Princeton University.

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