Speech and Theology: Language and the Logic of Incarnation (Routledge Radical Orthodoxy)

the condition of possibility

first, that God demands the effort of speech – that we are compelled to speak of God because he, in the Incarnation, has first spoken – and, consequently, that theology cannot properly choose silence in the pursuit of worship in view of its urgent need of words to make God visible.

it passionately asserts two central truths:

philosophy acquires the means not simply to speak of perfection, which is to speak theologically, but to bridge the gap between word and thing in a general sense.

Speech and Theology: Language and the Logic of Incarnation posits that the paradigm for the encounter between the material and the divine, or the immanent and transcendent, is found in the Incarnation: God's voluntary self-immersion in the human world as an expression of his love for his creation.