UID:
almahu_9947414206702882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 301 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511845819 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Current issues in theology ; 8
Content:
One of the central arguments of post-metaphysical theology is that language is inherently 'metaphysical' and consequently that it shoehorns objects into predetermined categories. Because God is beyond such categories, it follows that language cannot apply to God. Drawing on recent work in theology and philosophy of language, Kevin Hector develops an alternative account of language and its relation to God, demonstrating that one need not choose between fitting God into a metaphysical framework, on the one hand, and keeping God at a distance from language, on the other. Hector thus elaborates a 'therapeutic' response to metaphysics: given the extent to which metaphysical presuppositions about language have become embedded in common sense, he argues that metaphysics can be fully overcome only by defending an alternative account of language and its application to God, so as to strip such presuppositions of their apparent self-evidence and release us from their grip.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Therapy for metaphysics -- Concepts, rules, and the spirit of recognition -- Meaning and meanings -- Reference and presence -- Truth and correspondence -- Emancipating theology.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107010284
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511845819
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