ABSTRACT
The feminist philosopher of religion Grace M. Jantzen wrote analytically about Continental philosophers's contributions to discussions of power and gender in Christian mysticism. Anglo-American philosophy as apparent in A. W. Moore's writings on ineffable knowledge can be far more philosophically nuanced and insightful than evident in the criticisms made of this contemporary style of philosophy by certain Continental and feminist critics such as Jantzen. Jantzen assumes that, for masculinists, the ineffable is an untrustworthy source of knowledge; and its association with the feminine undermines the knowledge of, in this context, female mystics. Moore, for his part, identifies Jacques Derrida's play with images as one broad area of attempts to put ineffable knowledge into words which results in nonsense. Contemporary philosophers of religion, including feminists on and off the Continent, need not reject either ineffable knowledge as untrustworthy or its association with an urge for infinitude as a refusal to accept boundaries.
