Overview
""This study of Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, and Thomas Aquinas on the structure and significance of language about God reminds us that such ecumenical dialogue was immensely productive in the Middle Ages, and the author's perspective suggests how richly rewarding the renewal of such conversations might be for current philosophy among Jews, Christians, and Muslims."" -Bernard McGinn, Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor of Historical Theology and the History of Christianity, University of Chicago Divinity School ""Historians, philosophers, theologians, and those concerned with interreligious dialogue will all find this book important."" -George Lindbeck, Pitkin Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology and Religious Studies, Yale University
Full Product Details
Author: David B. Burrell
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
Edition: Revised ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.315kg
ISBN: 9780268012250
ISBN 10: 0268012253
Pages: 140
Publication Date: 30 April 1986
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
David Burrell's new book is as succinct as it is weighty, as clear as it is challenging. Knowing the Unknowable God is an exercise in an almost forgotten genre--ecumenical philosophical theology. ... the author's perspective suggests how richly rewarding the renewal of such conversations might be for current philosophical theology among Jews, Christians, and Muslims. -Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago ... brings out the importance of interfaith and transcultural communication of medieval philosophy.... Burrell's discussion of the logic of attribution is very relevant to contemporary philosophy of God. This brief but profound little book should be of interest to philosophers whose interests extend beyond medieval philosophy. -International Philosophical Quarterly
"" ... brings out the importance of interfaith and transcultural communication of medieval philosophy.... Burrell's discussion of the logic of attribution is very relevant to contemporary philosophy of God. This brief but profound little book should be of interest to philosophers whose interests extend beyond medieval philosophy."" —International Philosophical Quarterly ""David Burrell's new book is as succinct as it is weighty, as clear as it is challenging. Knowing the Unknowable God is an exercise in an almost forgotten genre--ecumenical philosophical theology. ... the author's perspective suggests how richly rewarding the renewal of such conversations might be for current philosophical theology among Jews, Christians, and Muslims."" —Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago
"""David Burrell's new book is as succinct as it is weighty, as clear as it is challenging. Knowing the Unknowable God is an exercise in an almost forgotten genre--ecumenical philosophical theology. ... the author's perspective suggests how richly rewarding the renewal of such conversations might be for current philosophical theology among Jews, Christians, and Muslims."" —Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago "" ... brings out the importance of interfaith and transcultural communication of medieval philosophy.... Burrell's discussion of the logic of attribution is very relevant to contemporary philosophy of God. This brief but profound little book should be of interest to philosophers whose interests extend beyond medieval philosophy."" —International Philosophical Quarterly"
Author Information
David B. Burrell, C.S.C., is currently Theodore Hesburgh Professor in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Friendship and Ways to Truth and Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions, also published by the University of Notre Dame Press.
