Introduction. Unknowable as Invitation in Science and Religion / John Bowker
1. Taxonomy of Absence / John Rodwell
2. Understanding the Radiant Sun: The Unknown and the Unknowable in an Example of Scientific Approach / Ramanath Cowsik
3. From the Unknowability of the Universe to the Teleology of Reason: A Phenomenological Insight into Apophatic Cosmology / Alexei V. Nesteruk
4. On Knowing the Unknowable: Immanuel Kant and the Unknowable Real / Keith Ward
5. Three Forms of Negativity in Christian Mysticism / Bernard McGinn
6. On Clouds and Veils: Divine Presence and 'Feminine' Secrets in Revelation and Nature / Sarah Coakley
7. Knowing the Unknowable about God and the Universe: Humility, Hope and the End of Knowledge / Oliver Davies
8. Unknowable Not Unknown: The Poetry of R. S. Thomas / Margaret Bowker
9. Knowing the Unknowable in Indian Traditions: Representation, Absence and Cosmology / Gavin Flood
10. Some Theological Reflections on Buddhism and the Unknowability and Hiddenness of God / Paul Williams
11. Divine Absence and the Purification of Desire: A Hindu Saint's Experience of a God Who Keeps his Distance / Francis X. Clooney
Afterword: Knowing the Unknowable / Rowan Williams.