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020 _a9780511845819 (ebook)
020 _z9781107010284 (hardback)
020 _z9780521279703 (paperback)
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050 0 0 _aBT103
_b.H43 2011
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100 1 _aHector, Kevin W.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aTheology without Metaphysics :
_bGod, Language, and the Spirit of Recognition /
_cKevin W. Hector.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2011.
300 _a1 online resource (312 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aCurrent Issues in Theology ;
_v8
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520 _aOne 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.
650 0 _aGod (Christianity)
650 0 _aPhilosophical theology
650 0 _aMetaphysics
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107010284
830 0 _aCurrent Issues in Theology ;
_v8.
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511845819
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c38794
_d38794