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ISBN: 3110152282 311081028X 9783110810288 9783110152289 Year: 2015 Volume: 77 Publisher: Berlin Boston


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Ideas on language in early Latin Christianity from Tertullian to Isidore of Seville
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ISBN: 9789004349872 9004349871 9789004276659 9004276653 Year: 2017 Volume: 142 Publisher: Brill

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In Ideas on Language in Early Latin Christianity , Tim Denecker investigates, in a comprehensive and systematic way, the views held on the history, diversity and properties of language(s) by Christian Latin authors from Tertullian (b. c.160) to Isidore of Seville (d. 636). This historical period witnessed various sociocultural changes, affecting linguistic situations and the ways in which these were perceived. Christian intellectuals were confronted with languages other than Latin in the context of the propagation of faith, and in reflecting on language were bound to comply with the relevant biblical accounts. Whereas previous research has mostly focused on the (indeed vital) contribution of Augustine, the present study reveals the diversified and dynamic nature of linguistic reflection in early Latin Christianity.

Realism and Christian faith
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ISBN: 1107132541 1280418516 113914782X 0511180454 051106439X 0511058063 0511615493 0511307365 0511072856 9780511064395 9780511615498 9781280418518 9780511058066 9780511072857 9780521811095 0521811090 0521524156 9780521524155 9781107132542 9780511180453 9780511307362 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press

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The question of realism - that is, whether God exists independently of human beings - is central to much contemporary theology and church life. It is also an important topic in the philosophy of religion. This book discusses the relationship between realism and Christian faith in a thorough and systematic way and uses the resources of both philosophy and theology to argue for a Christocentric narrative realism. Many previous defences of realism have attempted to model Christian belief on scientific theory but Moore argues that this comparison is misleading and inadequate on both theological and philosophical grounds. In dialogue with speech act theory and critiques of realism by both non-realists and Wittgensteinians, a new account of the meaningfulness of Christian language is proposed. Moore uses this to develop a regulative conception of realism according to which God's independent reality is shown principally in Christ and then through Christian practices and the lives of Christians.


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Transcendance et discours : essai sur la nomination paradoxale de Dieu
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ISBN: 2204023221 9782204023221 Year: 1985 Volume: 132 Publisher: Paris Cerf

The book of Jerry Falwell : fundamentalist language and politics
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ISBN: 0691089582 0691059896 9780691059891 9780691089584 Year: 2001 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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"Susan Harding, a cultural anthropologist, set out in the 1980s to understand the significance of Christian fundamentalism to date. Falwell and his co-pastors were the pivotal figures in the movement. It is on them that Harding focuses, and, in particular, their use of the Bible's language. She argues that this language is the medium through which born-again Christians, individual and collective, come to understand themselves as Christians. And it is inside this language that much of the born-again movement took place. Preachers like Falwell command a Bible-based poetics of great complexity, variety, creativity, and force, and, with it, attempt to mold their churches into living testaments of the Bible. Harding focuses on the words - sermons, speeches, books, audiotapes, and television broadcasts - of individual preachers, particularly Falwell, as they rewrote their Bible-based tradition to include, rather than exclude, intense worldly engagement. As a result of these efforts, born-again Christians recast themselves as a people not separated from but engaged in making history."--Jacket.


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De ratione communi omnium linguarum et literarum commentarius
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ISBN: 9782600014908 260001490X Year: 2011 Volume: 475 Publisher: Genève : Droz,

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Theodor Buchmann, better known as Theodore Bibliander (1505-64), held the chair of Old Testament at the theological school in Zurich as the immediate successor to Huldrych Zwingli. A Hebraist and Orientalist who edited a Latin translation of the Qur'an, Bibliander professed a well-articulated universalist theology based on and around the knowledge of languages in general, and of Oriental languages in particular. In his treatise De ratione omnium linguarum et literarum commentarius (Zurich, 1548), Bibliander sought to promote the contemporary notions of harmonia linguarum and concordia mundi, as well as the study of Hebrew, as an essential means to achieving a universal salvation. The present volume is an annotated translation of this work.

Le langage théologique à l'âge de la science : lecture de Jean Ladrière.
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ISBN: 220402273X 9782204022736 Year: 1985 Volume: 129 Publisher: Paris Cerf

Faith after foundationalism
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ISBN: 0813326451 9780813326450 Year: 1995 Publisher: Boulder ; San Francisco ; Oxford Westview Press


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Theology without metaphysics
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ISBN: 9780521279703 9781107010284 9780511845819 0521279704 9781139159487 1139159488 9781139161534 1139161539 9781139157711 113915771X 1283341115 9781283341110 0511845812 1107010284 113915298X 1107228506 1139160532 9786613341112 1139155962 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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One of the central arguments of post-metaphysical theology is that language is inherently 'metaphysical' and consequently that it shoehorns objects into predetermined categories. Because God is beyond such categories, it follows that language cannot apply to God. Drawing on recent work in theology and philosophy of language, Kevin Hector develops an alternative account of language and its relation to God, demonstrating that one need not choose between fitting God into a metaphysical framework, on the one hand, and keeping God at a distance from language, on the other. Hector thus elaborates a 'therapeutic' response to metaphysics: given the extent to which metaphysical presuppositions about language have become embedded in common sense, he argues that metaphysics can be fully overcome only by defending an alternative account of language and its application to God, so as to strip such presuppositions of their apparent self-evidence and release us from their grip.

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