Wildman Effing the Ineffable

Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7125-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

A meditation on how religious language tries to limn the liminal, conceive the inconceivable, speak the unspeakable, and say the unsayable.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wildman, Wesley J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments

Part I. Ultimacy Talk

1. Dreaming
2. Suffering
3. Creating

Part II. Ultimacy Systems

4. Slipping
5. Balancing
6. Eclipsing

Part III. Ultimacy Manifestations

7. Loneliness
8. Intensity
9. Bliss

The Treachery of Words (This Is Not a Conclusion)
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wesley J. Wildman is Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics at Boston University. His many books include Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry: Envisioning a Future for the Philosophy of Religion and Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century, both also published by SUNY Press.