Religious Language

How does religious language differ from our ordinary linguistic practices? Can religious language have meaning?

Olli-Pekka Vainio (Author)

9781108742238, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 December 2020

75 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 0.3 cm, 0.11 kg

What does it mean to use language religiously? How does religious language differ from our ordinary linguistic practices? Can religious language have meaning? Among others, these questions are part of the so-called problem of religious language, which originates from the peculiar object of many religious claims, that is, the transcendent, or more precisely, God.

Introduction
1. Language in the search of meaning
2. Naming God in the mystical tradition
3. Imagining God.

Subject Areas: Theology [HRLB], Nature & existence of God [HRAB1], Philosophy of religion [HRAB], Religion: general [HRA], Philosophy [HP]