«Word», Words, and World: How a Wittgensteinian Perspective on Metaphor-Making Reveals the Theo-logic of Reality (Religions and Discourse)

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The question this book aims to address is: how do we take on board post-modern insights regarding the relationship between language and world without losing our grip on theological truth? Employing the linguistic philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein as ‘philosophical hand-maid’ (as opposed to ‘metaphysical gate-keeper’, which has tended to be the case), it subjects to critique both traditional realist and post-modern constructivist perspectives as it examines how the nature and role of metaphor-making at the creative edge of language casts light on the God-language-world relationship. It concludes that a Wittgensteinian understanding of the relationship between language and world is not only compatible with a ‘theistic-realist’ doctrine of God but that the shape of this doctrine is inescapably Trinitarian. Cover Contents Preface Introduction Part One A Wittgensteinian Foundation Chapter One The Case for Language-Games as Basic Chapter Two The Consequences of Language-Games as Basic Part Two Moving the Foundation Chapter One A Wittgensteinian Explanation of Metaphor Chapter Two Metaphorising Chapter Three Inventions and Inculcations Part Three Metaphorising and Logic Chapter One Metaphorising, Actuality and Possibility Chapter Two Metaphorised Worlds Part Four Language-Games, Metaphorising and God Chapter One Metaphorising and Revelation Chapter Two Language-Games and Grace Chapter Three The Case for a ‘Language-Game Theology’ (1) Chapter Four The Case for a ‘Language-Game Theology’ (2) Epilogue: Summary and Conclusions Bibliography Index