Editing Apophatic theology (section)

===21st century===
[[Karen Armstrong]], in her book ''[[The Case for God]]'' (2009), notices a recovery of apophatic theology in [[postmodern theology]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Blackburn |first=Simon |author-link=Simon Blackburn |title=All quiet on the God front|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jul/04/case-for-god-karen-armstrong |date=4 July 2009 |access-date=7 April 2017 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |publisher=[[Guardian Media Group|Guardian News and Media]]}}</ref>

Philosopher and literary scholar [[William Franke (philosopher)|William Franke]], particularly in his 2007 two-volume collection ''On What Cannot Be Said'' and his 2014 monograph ''A Philosophy of the Unsayable'', puts forth that negative theology's exploration and performance of language's limitations is not simply one current among many in religious thought, but is "a kind of perennial counter-philosophy to the philosophy of Logos" that persistently challenges central tenets of Western thought throughout its history. For Franke, literature demonstrates the "infinitely open" nature of language which negative theology and related forms of philosophical thought seek to draw attention to. Franke therefore argues that literature, philosophy, and theology begin to bleed into one another as they approach what he frames as the "apophatic" side of Western thought.<ref>{{cite book |last=Franke |first=William |author-link=William Franke (philosopher) |date=2014 |title=A Philosophy of the Unsayable |chapter=Pre-face |publisher=University of Notre Dame Press |pages=1–19 |isbn=978-0-268-02894-7}}</ref>