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«Word», Words, and World

How a Wittgensteinian Perspective on Metaphor-Making Reveals the Theo-logic of Reality

by Susan Patterson (Author)
©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.

Biographical notes

Susan Patterson (Author)

Sue Patterson returned to New Zealand in 2010 to take up the post of Senior Lecturer in Philosophical Theology and Ethics at Bishopdale Theological College following a decade in Ireland as a Church of Ireland Rector and (latterly) Dean of Killala Cathedral. Prior to her time in Ireland, she was Lecturer in Ethics and Applied Theology at Trinity College, Bristol and a Postdoctoral (Fulbright) Scholar at the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton NJ. Her first book, the product of her post-doctoral research, Christian Realist Theology in a Postmodern Age, was published in 1999.

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