The Autonomy of Religious Belief
Subtitle: A Critical Inquiry (University of Notre Dame Studies in the Philosophy of Religion)
Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr
Published: October 1981
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780268005962
Subjects: Religious; Philosophy Of Religion; Language and languages; Philosophy; Religion; Religious aspects
Description: This collection of original essays deals with the meaning and truth of religious language. The background of the discussion is found in the linguistic analysis of Wittgenstein and others, for whom, as a form of life, language is seen as an organic part of the life of a human group. But the language of a people is characterized by an internal heterogeneity of "language-games" of different discourses- scientific, moral, religious- each having its own rules of what can be meaningfully said.