Beyond understanding

[Extract] In what follows in this response to Kilby, therefore, I shall first attempt to unpick a set of different accounts of “apophaticism” that co-exist confusingly within the key essays in this book; for its argument unfolds in several chapters devoted to this same theme.1 From here I shall be in a position to adjudicate on the persuasiveness of Kilby’s overall thesis, and finally to assess briefly – as is appropriate for this journal – what it all might mean for the specific project of “political theology.”