Presence and Absence: God As 'nothing' in Christian Tradition - Softcover

Mrkus, Gilbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1640659625 ISBN 13: 9781640659629

Verlag: Church Publishing Inc, 2026

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Presence and Absence 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. As Aquinas noted, “We are joined to God as to the unknown.”  Markus identifies it in the Bible, in the thought of Augustine, Aquinas and Eckhart, and in the poetry of R.S. Thomas and Paul Celan. He explores its significance in relation to Hegel, Feuerbach and Marx.

In the final part of the book, he shines the ‘single white light’ of the idea through various prisms, inviting the reader to meditate and pray on the idea of “God as Nothing,” of eternity, outside the continuum of time. 

“Márkus has an engaging way with words and a playful approach to how language works towards God as Nothing…This is analytical theology at its most accessible.”—Rt. Rev'd. Dr. John Saxbee, Church Times

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Gilbert Márkus is finishing historical research in a four-year AHRC-funded research project on the monastery of Iona. He was a Dominican friar for 21 years and ordained a priest in 1987. He studied theology at Blackfriars Oxford and at Edinburgh University (B.D., M.Th., S.T.L.) and taught and wrote on Liberation Theology for many years. On leaving the Dominicans in 2002, he taught and researched in medieval 'Celtic' history and theology at the universities of St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. His many books include The Radical Tradition: Saints in the Struggle for Justice and Peace. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Church Publishing Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1640659625
• ISBN 13: 9781640659629
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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