I regularly encounter persons who think it is self-evident that language is inherently metaphysical, that it therefore shoehorns objects into a predetermined framework and so inflicts violence upon them, and that it must accordingly be kept at a distance from God. I have never been convinced that this is the case, much less that it is self-evidently the case. This book argues that there is good reason to resist such a view, since there is reason to think that language is not – or need not be thought to be – metaphysical. If I am right about this, the book should contribute to current discussions of theological language as well as of metaphysics. That is my hope, at any rate.