Three delightful new nature books
Aug 31, 2018
3 minutes
The Greek word apophasis comes from phasis, meaning "image" and apo, meaning "beyond." As William Atkins writes in his vigorously involving new book The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places, the term is used to describe “the unknowability of God, and the ineffable character of the divine.”
It's the kind of thinking that comes naturally to people encountering desert places, where human senses are simultaneously sharpened and
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