In spite of its importance in the history of theology, the topic of negative (or apophatic) theology has received little attention from the analytic tradition. To the extent that the topic has been engaged with, the tone of the engagement has often been dismissive, with an influential treatment by Alvin Plantinga setting the scene. Hewitt’s Negative Theology and Philosophical Analysis redresses the balance, offering a philosophical analysis of characteristic negative theological claims, a motivation of these claims, and a development of key Christian theological loci in the light of them.Hewitt’s book introduces apophaticism historically, before engaging with, and answering, the major criticisms of negative theology extant in the analytic literature. It diagnoses the hostility to apophaticism as lying in the tacit acceptance by analytic philosophers and theologians of a particular account of language (‘referentialism’). Once we see that this account is not compulsory, we are free to develop an analytic negative theology. The constructive task of the book is to do this, focusing on divine simplicity as a motivation for apophaticism, and building on work in the so-called ‘grammatical thomist’ tradition.Discussants:Simon Hewitt (University of Leeds), Negative Theology and Philosophical Analysis: a précisGreg Restall (University of St Andrews), Numbers, the World, and God: on varieties of Semantic Anti-RealismSamuel Lebens (Haifa University), TBALorraine Juliano Keller (St Joseph’s University), God’s grammarFilippo Casati (Lehigh University), Grammatical Thomism and its political implications