%0 Book
%A Susan Patterson
%D 2013
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1422-8998
%@ 9783035305166
%T «Word», Words, and World
%B How a Wittgensteinian Perspective on Metaphor-Making Reveals the Theo-logic of Reality
%R 10.3726/978-3-0353-0516-6
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052026
%X 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.
%K language, relationship, theological truth
%G English