Religious Experience At The Limits Of Language
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Religious Experience At The Limits Of Language
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Author : William S. Swart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Religious Experience At The Limits Of Language written by William S. Swart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Language and languages categories.
In my dissertation, I explore the thinking of Emmanuel Lévinas, Jean-Luc Marion, and John D. Caputo, three late twentieth-century philosophers who consider the manner in which human desire for the divine is experienced within consciousness. I endeavor to provide a balanced reading of their views and then explore the question of whether phenomenology, rigorously applied, can provide a means for properly understanding religious experience. These three philosophers were influenced by the views of Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, and Derrida, and accordingly, my dissertation considers the manner in which those views are understood and then followed or rejected by Lévinas, Marion, and Caputo. In my view, contemporary philosophy of religion struggles to find its voice, often facing criticism for its theological tenor and hyperbolic language. I attempt to offer a reasoned analysis of the way in which philosophy, properly considered, can view language-formation (the creation of meaning within consciousness) as an essential component of religious experience. In my analysis of the writings of Lévinas, I explore how he finds in language the means to articulate an experience of the divine that begins outside of Being in “saying” and culminates within Being in the “said.” I then delve into the philosophical basis for his break with Heidegger and his expanded reading of Husserl and consider the possibility that he failed to fully justify his arguments through phenomenology. Next I consider Marion’s attempts to provide convincing arguments for an expansion of phenomenology to include all phenomena “given” to consciousness, a project grounded in his readings—or possibly his misreadings—of Husserl and Heidegger. I will evaluate Marion’s argument that phenomenology may properly recognize the possibility of revelation from a divine source that resembles the God of Western religion. Marion contends that such phenomena are incomprehensible and, paradoxically, impossible; I explore the way in which this contention supports an expansion of phenomenology to consider the experience of meaning-creation that occurs when phenomena are manifested to consciousness in the manner claimed by Marion. I then consider the contributions of Caputo to this debate and his premise that experience of God occurs (if at all) through a deconstructionist undertaking; in particular, I explore the way in which his “radical” hermeneutics supplements the philosophical contributions of Lévinas and Marion. Each of these three philosophers offers contemporary philosophy a different means for describing the possibility of religious experience; however, all of them conclude that human consciousness experiences God—or the idea of God—as largely incomprehensible. My dissertation asks whether phenomenology could potentially embrace impossibility as so depicted. Similarly, it considers whether a fundamental unanswered question regarding a phenomenological understanding of religious experience is this: how can truth and meaning be found in divine manifestations that defy language and are claimed to be beyond human comprehension?
Blessed Rage For Order
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Author : David Tracy
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1996-03
Blessed Rage For Order written by David Tracy and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03 with Religion categories.
In Blessed Rage for Order, David Tracy examines the cultural context in which theological pluralism emerged. Analyzing orthodox, liberal, neo-orthodox, and radical models of theology, Tracy formulates a new 'revisionist' model. He considers which methods promise the most certain results for a revisionist theology and applies his model to the principal questions in contemporary theology, including the meanings of religion, theism, and of christology.
Religion Within The Limits Of Language Alone
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Author : Felicity McCutcheon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Religion Within The Limits Of Language Alone written by Felicity McCutcheon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Religion categories.
Religion Within the Limits of Language Alone provides a critical examination of the Wittgensteinian philosophers of religion who claim that the word 'God' cannot be understood as referring to a metaphysical being who may or may not exist. McCutcheon traces the arguments offered by these philosophers of religion back to Wittgenstein's own criticisms of speculative metaphysics, arguing that in its religious usage the concept of God does not fall under Wittgenstein's anti-metaphysical gaze. In presenting a detailed account of Wittgenstein's own philosophical method, including his criticisms of metaphysics, McCutcheon shows that it is possible to accept Wittgenstein's criticisms of metaphysics whilst retaining the metaphysical content of religious language. This book offers a fresh understanding of Wittgenstein's philosophical method and a new critique of religious discourse for those studying philosophy and religious studies.
Effing The Ineffable
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Author : Wesley J. Wildman
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2018-10-09
Effing The Ineffable written by Wesley J. Wildman and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with Philosophy categories.
A meditation on how religious language tries to limn the liminal, conceive the inconceivable, speak the unspeakable, and say the unsayable. In Effing the Ineffable, Wesley J. Wildman confronts the human obsession with ultimate reality and our desire to conceive and speak of this reality through religious language, despite the seeming impossibility of doing so. Each chapter is a meditative essay on an aspect of life that, for most people, is fraught with special spiritual significance: dreaming, suffering, creating, slipping, balancing, eclipsing, loneliness, intensity, and bliss. These moments can inspire religious questioning and commitment, and, in extreme situations, drive us in search of ways to express what matters most to us. Drawing upon American pragmatist, Anglo-American analytic, and Continental traditions of philosophical theology, Wildman shows how, through direct description, religious symbolism, and phenomenological experience, the language games of religion become a means to attempt, and, in some sense, to accomplish this task. Wesley J. Wildman is Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics at Boston University. His many books include Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry: Envisioning a Future for the Philosophy of Religion and Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century, both also published by SUNY Press.
Paul Ricoeur And Contemporary Moral Thought
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Author : William Schweiker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-10-28
Paul Ricoeur And Contemporary Moral Thought written by William Schweiker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-28 with Philosophy categories.
This book explores and proposes new avenues for contemporary moral thought. It defines and assesses the significance of the writings of French philosopher Paul Ricoeur for ethics. The book also explores what matters most to persons and how best to sustain just communities.
The Varieties Of Religious Experience
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Author : Michel Ferrari
language : en
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Release Date : 2002
The Varieties Of Religious Experience written by Michel Ferrari and has been published by Imprint Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Religion categories.
William James published his classic work on the psychology of religion, "The Varieties of Religious Experience", in 1902. To mark the centenary, leading contemporary scholars reflect on changes in our understanding of the questions James addressed.
Religious Experience Revisited
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-09-07
Religious Experience Revisited written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-07 with Religion categories.
Religious Experience Revisited explores the contested relationship between experiences and expressions of religion. The entanglements of experience and expression are taken as a point of departure to develop a hermeneutics of religion in interdisciplinary and international perspectives.
Language In Religion
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Author : Humphrey Tonkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Language In Religion written by Humphrey Tonkin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is a collection of papers on the role of language in the structure of religious belief and on the function of language in the practices of different religions or faiths, with attention also to language as a factor in the organization of religious movements and in communication among members of the same religion. The study links theory and practiceóit includes some contributions from theologians but it is also concerned with the practical implications of language in religion. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of religion and linguistics. Contents: Introduction: Language and CultureóA Perspective; Explorations into Linguistic Practice as a Source of Religious Polarities or The Inevitability of Ineffability; The Meaning and Justification of Religious Propositions; Inclusive Language: Form or Substance; Mysticism and the Limits of Language; Mythic and Symbolic Verbal Structures and Literal Meaning in Literature; Fides Quaerens Verbum Hodiernum: Alternative Creeds and Speech Acts; The Bah- i Faith and Universal Language; Esperanto in the Service of Religion; and Prepare, Pray, Practice and Proclaim: Church Lectors and the Inculcation of Linguistic Practice. Co-published with the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems.
Literature And Religious Experience
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Author : Matthew J. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-01-13
Literature And Religious Experience written by Matthew J. Smith and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book challenges the status quo of studies in literature and religion by returning to “experience” as a bridge between theory and practice. Essays focus on keywords of religious experience and demonstrate their applications in drama, fiction, and poetry. Each chapter explores the broad significance of its keyword as a category of psychological and social behavior and tracks its unique articulation by individual authors, including Conrad, Beecher Stowe and Melville. Together, the chapters construct a critical foundation for studying literature not only from the perspectives of theology and historicism but from the ways that literary experience reflects, reinforces, and sometimes challenges religious experience.
An Eschatological Imagination
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Author : John M. Shields
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2008
An Eschatological Imagination written by John M. Shields and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Philosophy categories.
In the twentieth century, Christian eschatology, the doctrine about the final reality, became a storm center for Christian systematic theologians because of the rediscovery of the eschatological character of Jesus Christ. In the twenty-first century, Christian theologians continue to wrestle with the claims of Christian eschatology because of a postmodern suspicion of eschatological certainty claims about a future that is, after all, objectively unavailable, yet still of great human concern. Human beings live on hope for the future. An Eschatological Imagination recognizes the problem of the future for Christian eschatology. Building on the major theological writings of David Tracy, it offers a revised way of thinking and living eschatologically in the form of an eschatological imagination as a rhetoric of virtue, an exhortation to live in Christian hope in a postmodern world and into an objectively unavailable and uncertain future. Within such a rhetoric, hope becomes action - not mere sentiment - that seeks to create a Christian eschatological future.