Being in religion
Subtitle: a journey in ontology from pragmatics through hermeneutics to metaphysics
By: Asle Eikrem
Series: Religion in philosophy and theology -- 67; Religion in philosophy and theology -- 67.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9783161520525
Subjects: Philosophy; Ontologie; Hermeneutik; Diskurs; Religious aspects; Pragmatik; Religion; Religionsphilosophie; Language and languages
Notes: Also presented as the author's thesis (doctoral) - MF Norwegian School of Theology, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Problems in the philosophy of religious language ;; title: From pragmatic philosophy of language through continental hermeneutics and phenomenology to deep-metaphysics ;; title: The pragmatic, semantic and ontological structures of religious discourses ;; title: Systematic reconstruction --; title: A journey in ontology from pragmatics through hermeneutics.; title: The pragmatic dimension of religious discourses as explicated by D.Z. Phillips;; title: "Don't think, but look!";; title: Religions as practices;; title: Religious language as practices;; title: Religious practices in forms of life;; title: The concept of God structured as praxis;; title: Realism vs. non-realism : a confused dichotomy? ;; title: The phenomenological, hermeneutic and ontological structure of religious discourses as explicated by Paul Ricoeur;; title: Ontology within the framework of a hermeneutics of subjectivity;; title: The polysemy of sensibility;; title: Being at the frontiers of sense:; title: The semantic, hermeneutic and ontological dimension of metaphorization:; title: Ricoeur's theory of metaphorical reference : towards a tensional ontology;; title: Temporal being:; title: Time and narrative as a hermeneutic spiral :; title: Mimesis1 :; title: Mimesis2 :; title: Mimesis3:; title: Reference or refiguration?;; title: Towards a hermeneutic-ontological framework for understanding religious discourse ;; title: Pragmatics and hermeneutic ontology in philosophy of religion;; title: Ontology : reduction, enrichment, refinement?;; title: Ontology in between pragmatics, hermeneutics and phenomenology:; title: Language-games, forms of life and lifeworlds:; title: Ricoeur and Phillips on referential relations and ontology:; title: Sameness and otherness in the context of religion;; title: Summary and outlook : ontological enquiries within the frameworks of pragmatics, hermeneutics and phenomenology --; title: Towards deep-metaphysics.; title: Ontology and the two orders of religious discourse;; title: Religious discourses : clarifying an ambiguous concept;; title: The quest for the ontological dimension of religious discourses;; title: Ontology and different orders of religious discourse ;; title: Ontology and first-order religious discourses;; title: The methodological Status of Phillips' Wittgensteinian concepts;; title: Situations, contexts, forms of life, and lifeworlds as theoretical determinations of how being discloses itself religiously;; title: Language-games as a heuristic conceptual device to determine how being discloses itself religiously;; title: A critical explication of the pragmatic, semantic, and ontological structures of lifeworlds:; title: The lifeworld as the dimension of actual and possible praxis :; title: The semantic-ontological dimension of figurative discourse :; title: A reconstructed ontology of possibility;; title: Religious experience and religious praxis further explicated in relation to the notions of expressibility and practicability;; title: Human living as experiencing flesh/body;; title: The dialectic of Sameness and otherness as the hermeneutic structure of how being discloses itself in first-order religious discourses;; title: Referential relations and ontology in religious discourses ;; title: Ontology and second-order religious discourses;; title: Hermeneutic reflection and contemplative description;; title: From lifeworldly and linguistic-pragmatic determination to a semantics of action;; title: Contemplative hermeneutics, theories of being, and the relativity of theoretical frameworks;; title: The origin, mode, and scope of human thinking;; title: The ethical orientation of ontological thinking ;; title: Summary and concluding remarks ---- Bibliography-- Index of names-- Subject index.; title: Chapter I. Introduction; title: Chapter II. The pragmatic dimension of religious discourses as explicated by D.Z. Phillips; title: Chapter III. The phenomenological, hermeneutic and ontological structure of religious discourses as explilcated by Paul Ricoeur; title: Chapter IV. Pragmatics and hermeneutics ontology in philosophy of religion; title: Chapter V. Ontology and the two orders of religious discourse; title: Chapter VI. Ontology and the two orders of religious discourse; title: Chapter VII. Ontology and second-order religious discourses; title: Chapter VIII. Summary and concluding remarks.