The Philosophy of Religious Language - Dan Stiver

The Philosophy of Religious Language

Sign, Symbol and Story

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Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
1995
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-55786-582-3 (ISBN)
50,95 inkl. MwSt
aeo Unique appraisal of the impact of 20th century movements within the philosophy of language on religious discourse. aeo Lively and accessible introduction for undergraduates on both religious studies and philosophy courses. aeo Engages the reader in further study through suggested readings at the end of each chapter.
This text provides a lively introduction to the developments in philosophy of language in this century, and to the way these have impinged upon religious language. Included is the relevance of analytical philosophy of language, but the text also covers important historical debates about religious language that have had increasing impact upon biblical studies and theology.

Dan Stiver is Associate Professor of Religious Philosophy at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville.

Preface ix

Acknowledgements xiii

1 Introduction 1

The Linguistic Turn in Philosophy 4

The Linguistic Turn in Religion 6

Philosophical Foundations 8

2 Historical Approaches to Religious Language 14

Three Traditional Ways 15

The negative way 16

The Univocal way 20

The Analogical way 23

The Universal Controversy 29

Literal and Allegorical Exegesis 31

3 The Falsification Challenge 37

The Early Wittgenstein 37

Logical Positivism 42

The Falsification Challenge 47

4 Language Game 59

The Later Wittgenstein 59

Religious Language as Noncognitive 67

Wittgenstein on religion 67

Wittgensteinian fideism 69

Religious Language as Cognitive 72

John Wisdom 73

Ian T. Ramsey 74

Ian Crombie 78

Speech-act Theory 79

Austin 80

McClendon and Smith 82

5 Hermeneutical Philosophy 87

From Religious to General Hermeneutics 87

Ontological Hermeneutics 90

Critical Hermeneutics 96

Ricoeur and Critical Hermeneutics 100

Reader-response Theory 107

6 Metaphor, Symbol and Analogy 112

Metaphor as Ornamental 113

Metaphor as Cognitive 114

Symbol and Analogy 122

Metaphor in Exegesis 127

Metaphor in Theology 129

7 Narrative Theology 134

The Chicago School 135

The Yale School 139

Hans Frei 140

George Lindbeck 145

Ronald Thiemann 150

The California School 154

James Wm McClendon Jr 154

Michael Goldberg 155

Terrence Tilley 159

8 Structuralism and Poststructuralism 163

Structuralism 163

De Saussure’s influence on Structuralism 163

Structuralist thinkers 166

Critique 171

Structuralism in Religious Studies 173

Ricoeur 174

Thiselton 175

Patte 177

Crossan and Via 178

Poststructuralism 180

Derrida 181

Foucault 184

Critique 186

Poststructuralism in Religious Studies 188

9 Conclusion: A Changing Paradigm 193

Reducing the Contrasts 194

A Changing Paradigm 197

Religious Language and Truth 201

Notes 206

Recommended Reading 246

Index 251 

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.12.1995
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 230 mm
Gewicht 399 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10 1-55786-582-5 / 1557865825
ISBN-13 978-1-55786-582-3 / 9781557865823
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