«Word», Words, and World
How a Wittgensteinian Perspective on Metaphor-Making Reveals the Theo-logic of Reality
©2013
Monographs
X,
260 Pages
Series:
Religions and Discourse, Volume 50
Summary
The question this book aims to address is: how do we take on board post-modern insights regarding the relationship between language and world without losing our grip on theological truth? Employing the linguistic philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein as ‘philosophical hand-maid’ (as opposed to ‘metaphysical gate-keeper’, which has tended to be the case), it subjects to critique both traditional realist and post-modern constructivist perspectives as it examines how the nature and role of metaphor-making at the creative edge of language casts light on the God-language-world relationship. It concludes that a Wittgensteinian understanding of the relationship between language and world is not only compatible with a ‘theistic-realist’ doctrine of God but that the shape of this doctrine is inescapably Trinitarian.
Details
- Pages
- X, 260
- Publication Year
- 2013
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783035305166
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783034302302
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-0353-0516-6
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2013 (September)
- Keywords
- language relationship theological truth
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2013. X, 260 pp.