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Language, Truth, and Religious Belief

By Frankenberry, Nancy K.

Language, Truth, and Religious Belief

By Frankenberry, Nancy K.

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Why do many people think religion is subjective? Or symbolic? Or non-rational? This book brings together eighteen important twentieth-century essaus on these questions, by authors ranging from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Richard Rorty and Clifford Geertz. The editors show that such questions are both quite modern and powerfully influential in our Western thinking about religious belief. Moreover, they lead directly into the three most popular theories that attempt to make sense of religion: positivism, functionalism, and relativism. Selecting essays that represent each of these three theoretical positions, Frankenberry and Penner trace their incoherence and argue for a new method and theory for understanding religious beliefs.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
548
Release Date:
1999-01-02
Publication Date:
1999-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0788505408
ISBN13:
9780788505409
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[email protected]
Weight:
879 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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