TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hector,Kevin W.
TI  - Theology without Metaphysics: God, Language, and the Spirit of Recognition 
T2  - Current Issues in Theology
SN  - 9780511845819 (ebook)
AV  - BT103 .H43 2011
U1  - 231.01/4 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - God (Christianity)
KW  - Philosophical theology
KW  - Metaphysics
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511845819
ER  -