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The Philosophy of Religious Language
Sign, Symbol and Story
Dan Stiver (Author)
9781557865823, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 14 December 1995
272 pages
23 x 15.3 x 2.1 cm, 0.399 kg
"This is an excellent critical survey of the modern philosophy of language in general, and of religious language in particular, deftly set against the background of its traditional forerunners. It is readable, colourful, and richly informative, without being simplistic or sweeping in its descriptions and judgements." Steven Kings, Reviews in Religion and Theology "Dan Stiver offers, for "tose coming to these topics for the first time", a useful map to an academic (sub)discipline called philosophy of religious language." Brian Davies, Anglican Theological Review
This text provides a lively introduction to the developments in philosophy of language in this century, and to the way these have impinged upon religious language. Included is the relevance of analytical philosophy of language, but the text also covers important historical debates about religious language that have had increasing impact upon biblical studies and theology.
Preface ix Acknowledgements xiii 1 Introduction 1 The Linguistic Turn in Philosophy 4 The Linguistic Turn in Religion 6 Philosophical Foundations 8 2 Historical Approaches to Religious Language 14 Three Traditional Ways 15 The negative way 16 The Univocal way 20 The Analogical way 23 The Universal Controversy 29 Literal and Allegorical Exegesis 31 3 The Falsification Challenge 37 The Early Wittgenstein 37 Logical Positivism 42 The Falsification Challenge 47 4 Language Game 59 The Later Wittgenstein 59 Religious Language as Noncognitive 67 Wittgenstein on religion 67 Wittgensteinian fideism 69 Religious Language as Cognitive 72 John Wisdom 73 Ian T. Ramsey 74 Ian Crombie 78 Speech-act Theory 79 Austin 80 McClendon and Smith 82 5 Hermeneutical Philosophy 87 From Religious to General Hermeneutics 87 Ontological Hermeneutics 90 Critical Hermeneutics 96 Ricoeur and Critical Hermeneutics 100 Reader-response Theory 107 6 Metaphor, Symbol and Analogy 112 Metaphor as Ornamental 113 Metaphor as Cognitive 114 Symbol and Analogy 122 Metaphor in Exegesis 127 Metaphor in Theology 129 7 Narrative Theology 134 The Chicago School 135 The Yale School 139 Hans Frei 140 George Lindbeck 145 Ronald Thiemann 150 The California School 154 James Wm McClendon Jr 154 Michael Goldberg 155 Terrence Tilley 159 8 Structuralism and Poststructuralism 163 Structuralism 163 De Saussure’s influence on Structuralism 163 Structuralist thinkers 166 Critique 171 Structuralism in Religious Studies 173 Ricoeur 174 Thiselton 175 Patte 177 Crossan and Via 178 Poststructuralism 180 Derrida 181 Foucault 184 Critique 186 Poststructuralism in Religious Studies 188 9 Conclusion: A Changing Paradigm 193 Reducing the Contrasts 194 A Changing Paradigm 197 Religious Language and Truth 201 Notes 206 Recommended Reading 246 Index 251
Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
