"This collection of essays explores Wittgenstein's significance for the philosophy of religion. Through a discussion of language-games, forms of life, and Wittgenstein's strictures against subliming the logic of our language, we are brought to see the importance of emphasising that to...

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Main Author:	Phillips, Dewi Z. 1934-2006 (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY St. Martin's Press 1993
Edition:	1. publ.
Subjects:	Wittgenstein, Ludwig <1889-1951> Wittgenstein, Ludwig <1889-1951> > Religion Wittgenstein, Ludwig > 1889-1951 Godsdienstfilosofie Philosophie Religion > Philosophy Religion Religionsphilosophie
Summary:	"This collection of essays explores Wittgenstein's significance for the philosophy of religion. Through a discussion of language-games, forms of life, and Wittgenstein's strictures against subliming the logic of our language, we are brought to see the importance of emphasising that to reflect on the reality of God is to reflect on a kind of reality. God's reality is a spiritual reality, something ignored in contemporary debates between realism and non-realism which pay little attention to concept-formation in religion." "These conceptual insights are brought to bear on the clash between belief and atheism; the task of understanding religious experience; issues concerning language and ritual; whether evil calls for theodicies which claim to understand and justify the ways of God; and difficulties in talking of miracles in the twentieth century." "The author argues against ambitions to construct a Christian philosophy. In contrast, the flexibility in Wittgenstein's methods helps us to appreciate philosophy's distinctive tasks in relation to religion."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:	XXI, 259 S.
ISBN:	0333523784 0333586204 0312096399