"Word", Words, and World : How a Wittgensteinian Perspective on Metaphor-Making Reveals the Theo-logic of Reality Paperback / softback
by Susan Patterson
Part of the Religions and Discourse series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:260 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
- Publication Date:11/09/2013
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- ISBN:9783034302302
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:260 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
- Publication Date:11/09/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9783034302302
