Desire, faith, and the darkness of God : essays in honor of Denys Turner / edited by Eric Bugyis and David Newheiser.

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2015]

xvi, 510 pages ; 23 cm

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The trials of desire / David Newheiser -- Immanence and transcendence. End without end: cosmology and infinity in Nicholas of Cusa / Mary-Jane Rubenstein ; The darkness of God and the light of life: Augustine, Pseudo-Denys, and Eckhart / Karl Hefty ; Mysterious reasons: the rationality and ineffability of divine beauty / A.N. Williams ; Using reason to derive mutual illumination from diverse traditions / David Burrell, C.S.C.-- Disourse and authority. Assent to thinking / Karmen MacKendrick ; Apian transformations and the paradoxes of women's authorial personae in late medieval England / Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis ; Academics and mystics: the case of Jean Gerson / Bernard McGinn ; How wrong could Dante be?: authority and error in Paradiso Cantos 26 to 29 / Robin Kirkpatrick -- Marxism and negative theology. The turning of discourse: generous grammar or analogy in ecstacy / Cyril O'Regan ; "Love was his meaning": on learning from medieval texts / Oliver Davies ; Ideology and religion, yet again / Ludger Viefhues-Bailey ; Is Marxism a theodicy? / Terry Eagleton ; "If you do love, you'll certainly be killed": a conversation / Denys Turner and Terry Eagleton ; As we were saying: Marxism and Christianity revisited / Eric Bugyis -- Revelations of love. How to say "thank you": reflecting on the work of Primo Levi / Vittorio Montemaggi ; Sitit Sitiri: Apophatic Christologics of desire / Philip McCosker ; Our love and our knowledge of God / John Hare ; Eckhart, Derrida, and the gift of love / David Newheiser ; Afterword: How to fail, or "The fine delight that fathers thought" / Denys Turner.