Word, Words, and World: How a Wittgensteinian Perspective on Metaphor-Making Reveals the Theo-logic of Reality (50) (Religions and Discourse) - Softcover

Patterson, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3034302304 ISBN 13: 9783034302302

Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3034302304
• ISBN 13: 9783034302302
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270