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9781557865816

The Philosophy of Religious Language

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    1557865817

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1995-12-01
  • Publisher: Blackwell Pub

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Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction
1(13)
The Linguistic Turn in Philosophy
4(2)
The Linguistic Turn in Religion
6(2)
Philosophical Foundations
8(6)
Historical Approaches to Religious Language
14(23)
Three Traditional Ways
15(14)
The negative way
16(4)
The univocal way
20(3)
The analogical way
23(6)
The Universals Controversy
29(2)
Literal and Allegorical Exegesis
31(6)
The Falsification Challenge
37(22)
The Early Wittgenstein
37(5)
Logical Positivism
42(5)
The Falsification Challenge
47(12)
Language Games
59(28)
The Later Wittgenstein
59(8)
Religious Language as Noncognitive
67(5)
Wittgenstein on religion
67(2)
Wittgensteinian fideism
69(3)
Religious Language as Cognitive
72(7)
John Wisdom
73(1)
Ian T. Ramsey
74(4)
Ian Crombie
78(1)
Speech-act Theory
79(8)
Austin
80(2)
McClendon and Smith
82(5)
Hermeneutical Philosophy
87(25)
From Regional to General Hermeneutics
87(3)
Ontological Hermeneutics
90(6)
Critical Hermeneutics
96(4)
Ricœur and Critical Hermeneutics
100(7)
Reader-response Theory
107(5)
Metaphor, Symbol, and Analogy
112(22)
Metaphor as Ornamental
113(1)
Metaphor as Cognitive
114(8)
Symbol and Analogy
122(5)
Metaphor in Exegesis
127(2)
Metaphor in Theology
129(5)
Narrative Theology
134(29)
The Chicago School
135(4)
The Yale School
139(15)
Hans Frei
140(5)
George Lindbeck
145(5)
Ronald Thiemann
150(4)
The California School
154(9)
James Wm McClendon Jr
154(1)
Michael Goldberg
155(4)
Terrence Tilley
159(4)
Structuralism and Poststructuralism
163(30)
Structuralism
163(10)
De Saussure's influence on Structuralism
163(3)
Structuralist thinkers
166(5)
Critique
171(2)
Structuralism in Religious Studies
173(7)
Ricœur
174(1)
Thiselton
175(2)
Patte
177(1)
Crossan and Via
178(2)
Poststructuralism
180(8)
Derrida
181(3)
Foucault
184(2)
Critique
186(2)
Poststructuralism in Religious Studies
188(5)
Conclusion: A Changing Paradigm
193(13)
Reducing the Contrasts
194(3)
A Changing Paradigm
197(4)
Religious Language and Truth
201(5)
Notes 206(40)
Recomended Reading 246(5)
Index 251

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