TY  - BOOK
AU  - Susan Patterson
PY  - 2013
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1422-8998
SN  - 9783035305166
TI  - «Word», Words, and World
T2  - How a Wittgensteinian Perspective on Metaphor-Making Reveals the Theo-logic of Reality
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0516-6
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052026
N2  - 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.
KW  - language, relationship, theological truth
LA  - English
ER  -