Wittgenstein and Interreligious Disagreement: A Philosophical and Theological Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781137503077 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 280 str.

Gorazd Andrej

Opis

This book critically examines three distinct interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein, those of George Lindbeck, David Tracy, and David Burrell, while paying special attention to the topic of interreligious disagreement.

Spis treści

 Introduction

1. Wittgenstein on Religion: The Four Conceptions

2. George Lindbeck, Wittgenstein and Grammar of Interreligious Disagreement 

3. Incommensurability and Interreligious Communication

4. David Tracy, Experience, and ‘Similarities-in-Difference’

5. A Wittgensteinian Approach to Interreligious Disagreements: Descriptive and Normative Investigations

Bibliography 

O autorze

 Gorazd Andrejč is Junior Research Fellow at The Woolf Institute, Cambridge, and Research Associate at St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK.  

   

Blurb

 This book critically examines three distinct interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein, those of George Lindbeck, David Tracy, and David Burrell, while paying special attention to the topic of interreligious disagreement. In theological and philosophical work on interreligious communication, Ludwig Wittgenstein has been interpreted in very different, sometimes contradicting ways. This is partly due to the nature of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, which is not composed of a theory but several, varying conceptions of religion. In this volume, Gorazd Andrejč illustrates how assorted uptakes of Wittgenstein’s conceptions of religion, and the differing theological perspectives of the authors who formulated them, shape interpretations of interreligious disagreement and dialogue. Inspired by selected perspectives from Tillichian philosophical theology, this book suggests a new way of engaging both descriptive and normative aspects of Wittgenstein’s conceptions of religion in the interpretation of interreligious disagreement.