Speech and Theology

Language and the Logic of Incarnation
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-27696-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 319 g

Reihe: Routledge Radical Orthodoxy

God is infinite, but language finite; thus speech would seem to condemn Him to finitude. In speaking of God, would the theologian violate divine transcendence by reducing God to immanence, or choose, rather, to remain silent? At stake in this argument is a core problem of the conditions of divine revelation. How, in terms of language and the limitations of human understanding, can transcendence ever be made known? Does its very appearance not undermine its transcendence, its condition of unknowability?
Speech and Theology posits that the paradigm for the encounter between the material and the divine, or the immanent and transcendent, is found in the Incarnation: God's voluntary self-immersion in the human world as an expression of His love for His creation. By this key act of grace, hinged upon Christs condescension to human finitude, philosophy acquires the means not simply to speak of perfection, which is to speak theologically, but to bridge the gap between word and thing in general sense.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, James K. A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Theologie und die Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Religion & Wissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Horizons; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Phenomenology and Transcendence; Part 2 Retrieval; Chapter 3 Heidegger'S “New” Phenomenology; Chapter 4 Praise and Confession; Part 3 Trajectories; Chapter 5 Incarnational Logic;

Über Autor(innen)

James K.A. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in California.