How (Not) to Speak of God

How (Not) to Speak of God
By Peter Rollins
Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2006
Review by Carl McColman

Peter Rollins is a postmodern theorist and the founder and facilitator of Norther Ireland’s Ikon, a gathering of people who are re-visioning Christian community and worship within a postmodern/emerging church framework. How (Not) to Speak of God is a short book in which he sketches out a contemporary apophatic theological vision and then situates it in a practical sense by recounting ten of Ikon’s services, which come across like liturgical performance art happenings. It’s a short book, perhaps too short, with a mere 80 pages for the outlining of Rollins’ theology and another 60 pages devoted to describing the services. It left this reader hungry for more, which I suppose in itself is a good thing.