The Philosophy of Religious Language

, by Stiver, Dan R.

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ISBN: 9781557865816 | 1557865817
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/1/1995

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Preface

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction

(13)

The Linguistic Turn in Philosophy

(2)

The Linguistic Turn in Religion

(2)

Philosophical Foundations

(6)

Historical Approaches to Religious Language

(23)

Three Traditional Ways

(14)

The negative way

(4)

The univocal way

(3)

The analogical way

(6)

The Universals Controversy

(2)

Literal and Allegorical Exegesis

(6)

The Falsification Challenge

(22)

The Early Wittgenstein

(5)

Logical Positivism

(5)

The Falsification Challenge

(12)

Language Games

(28)

The Later Wittgenstein

(8)

Religious Language as Noncognitive

(5)

Wittgenstein on religion

(2)

Wittgensteinian fideism

(3)

Religious Language as Cognitive

(7)

John Wisdom

(1)

Ian T. Ramsey

(4)

Ian Crombie

(1)

Speech-act Theory

(8)

Austin

(2)

McClendon and Smith

(5)

Hermeneutical Philosophy

(25)

From Regional to General Hermeneutics

(3)

Ontological Hermeneutics

(6)

Critical Hermeneutics

(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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