You can check out an excerpt from the book here. Here are some nice things people have said:

Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God is a testament to the range of Denys Turner's influence and the varieties of modes of argumentation with which his work is conversant. The volume will be read with pleasure by scholars in the history of Christianity, particularly of Christian mysticism, Christian theologians, and philosophers of religion, as well as scholars across a range of subdisciplines.

Amy Hollywood (Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies, Harvard Divinity School)

A darkly sparkling set of essays, diverse in discipline and in desire, each affirming some intense potentia of negative theology for contemporary conversation. That its stimulation of new exchanges between theism and atheism, cosmology and history, mysticism and Marxism, language and silence, will succeed seems assured by Turner’s concluding performance of an apophatic art of failure.

Catherine Keller (Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew University)

Denys Turner is a rare intellectual witness to philosophies of love and justice from mysticism to marxism and beyond. This rich and engaging volume is fitting testament to his extraordinary influence on new generations of thinkers and scholars. Tackling such crucial questions as theodicy, divine eros, and the perennial struggle between faith and reason, philosophy and theology, the contributors shed new light on ancient problems. The exchange between Turner and Eagleton is a very special gem to be treasured.

Richard Kearney (Charles Seelig Professor in Philosophy, Boston College)

Reviews

It is a fascinating volume, full of thoughtfulness and depth, the often exhilarating and creative play of ideas, and striking insights which examine ancient questions in the light of modernity. It is a testament to Turner’s skill and influence as a teacher, writer, and thinker that he has provoked such wide-ranging, thought-provoking, intellectually satisfying, and yet challenging work.

Maggie Hamand, Journal of Theological Studies

The volume, beyond offering a tribute to Turner’s life, is also a stimulating offering of several original pieces of theological writing on topics of prayer, desire, apophasis, Marxism, discourse, epistemology, Dante, interreligious dialogue, and others. Far from being of interest only to those otherwise concerned with Turner’s work, it would reward the attention of anyone engaged with such topics, whether they be upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, or professional academics.

Jonathan M. Platter, Reviews in Religion and Theology

This is a most distinguished collection of essays in honour of Denys Turner… Via Nicolas of Cusa, Augustine, Pseudo-Denys, Julian, Eckhart, Dante, Aquinas, Mechthild, Gerson, Marx, Primo Levi, Maximus the Confessor, Bonaventura, Scotus, Derrida and host of others, detailed and concentrated reading of the essays in this splendid collection should provide refreshment for considerable time to come.detailed and concentrated reading of the essays in this splendid collection should provide refreshment for considerable time to come.

Ann Loades, Theology

Turner ends the volume with one of the most inspired essays one will ever come across: “How to Fail, or ‘The fine delight that fathers thought’.” Characteristically eloquent of speech and elegant of mind, this remarkable little essay begins by ruminating on the travails, often self-imposed, of the academy and then shows how the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins shows both the cost of those travails and the possibilities that always remain insofar as the desire for more goes on.

Jonathan Tran, Anglican Theological Review

The authors and editors of this volume have given us something more than a traditional festschrift: instead of merely praising Turner and his work, this volume refreshingly conveys the liveliness and excitement of his distinctive mode of theological thinking. The reader emerges having not only absorbed excellent theological, philosophical, and literary scholarship, but also participated in a vitally important conversation.

Griffin Oleynick, Religion & Literature