Word, Words, and World; How a Wittgensteinian Perspective on Metaphor-Making Reveals the Theo-logic of Reality

ISBN-13: 9783034302302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 251 str.

Sue Patterson

Opis

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."

Spis treści

Contents: The Case for Language-Games as Basic - The Consequences of Language-Games as Basic - A Wittgensteinian Explanation of Metaphor - Metaphorising - Inventions and Inculcations - Metaphorising, Actuality and Possibility - Metaphorised Worlds - Metaphorising and Revelation - Language-Games and Grace - The Case for a 'Language-Game Theology'.

O autorze

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.