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The Oxford handbook of philosophical theology.
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ISBN: 9780199289202 9780199596539 0199596530 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press


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Deus ut tentus vel visus : die Debatte um die Seligkeit im reflexiven Akt (ca. 1923-1320)
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ISBN: 9789004191877 Year: 2011 Volume: 104 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill


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Theology without metaphysics : God, language, and the spirit of recognition
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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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