Wittgenstein and Interreligious Disagreement (eBook)

A Philosophical and Theological Perspective

Gorazd Andrejč (Autor)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
XII, 280 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-49823-6 (ISBN)

Infos

 This book critically examines three distinct interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein, those of George Lindbeck, David Tracy, and David Burrell, while paying special attention to the topic of interreligious disagreement. In theological and philosophical work on interreligious communication, Ludwig Wittgenstein has been interpreted in very different, sometimes contradicting ways. This is partly due to the nature of Wittgenstein's philosophical investigation, which does not consist of a theory nor does it posit theses about religion, but includes several, varying conceptions of religion. In this volume, Gorazd Andrejč illustrates how assorted uptakes of Wittgenstein's conceptions of religion, and the differing theological perspectives of the authors who formulated them, shape interpretations of interreligious disagreement and dialogue. Inspired by selected perspectives from Tillichian philosophical theology, the book suggests a new way of engaging both descriptive and normative aspects of Wittgenstein's conceptions of religion in the interpretation of interreligious disagreement.

 Gorazd Andrejč is Junior Research Fellow at The Woolf Institute, Cambridge, and Research Associate at St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, UK.  

   

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 This book critically examines three distinct interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein, those of George Lindbeck, David Tracy, and David Burrell, while paying special attention to the topic of interreligious disagreement. In theological and philosophical work on interreligious communication, Ludwig Wittgenstein has been interpreted in very different, sometimes contradicting ways. This is partly due to the nature of Wittgenstein's philosophical investigation, which does not consist of a theory nor does it posit theses about religion, but includes several, varying conceptions of religion. In this volume, Gorazd Andrejc illustrates how assorted uptakes of Wittgenstein's conceptions of religion, and the differing theological perspectives of the authors who formulated them, shape interpretations of interreligious disagreement and dialogue. Inspired by selected perspectives from Tillichian philosophical theology, the book suggests a new way of engaging both descriptive and normative aspects of Wittgenstein's conceptions of religion in the interpretation of interreligious disagreement.

Inhalt

 Introduction1. Wittgenstein on Religion: The Four Conceptions2. George Lindbeck, Wittgenstein and Grammar of Interreligious Disagreement 3. Incommensurability and Interreligious Communication4. David Tracy, Experience, and ‘Similarities-in-Difference’5. A Wittgensteinian Approach to Interreligious Disagreements: Descriptive and Normative InvestigationsBibliography 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.8.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 280 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Communication • Comparative theology • concept of religion • David Burrell • David Tracy • George Lindbeck • Incommensurability • Interfaith dialogue • interreligious communication • Interreligious relations • Ludwig Wittgenstein • Paul Tillich • Philosophy • Religion • Theology
• ISBN-10: 1-137-49823-4 / 1137498234
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-49823-6 / 9781137498236