Andrejc / Andrejc Wittgenstein and Interreligious Disagreement

A Philosophical and Theological Perspective
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-49823-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, eBook

This book critically examines three distinct interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein, those of George Lindbeck, David Tracy, and David Burrell, while paying special attention to the topic of interreligious disagreement. In theological and philosophical work on interreligious communication, Ludwig Wittgenstein has been interpreted in very different, sometimes contradicting ways. This is partly due to the nature of Wittgenstein’s philosophical investigation, which does not consist of a theory nor does it posit theses about religion, but includes several, varying conceptions of religion. In this volume, Gorazd Andrejc illustrates how assorted uptakes of Wittgenstein’s conceptions of religion, and the differing theological perspectives of the authors who formulated them, shape interpretations of interreligious disagreement and dialogue. Inspired by selected perspectives from Tillichian philosophical theology, the book suggests a new way of engaging both descriptive and normative aspects of Wittgenstein’s conceptions of religion in the interpretation of interreligious disagreement.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andrejc, Gorazd

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- 1. Wittgenstein on Religion: The Four Conceptions .- 2. George Lindbeck, Wittgenstein and Grammar of Interreligious Disagreement.- 3. Incommensurability and Interreligious Communication.- 4. David Tracy, Experience, and ‘Similarities-in-Difference’.- 5. A Wittgensteinian Approach to Interreligious Disagreements: Descriptive and Normative Investigations.- Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Gorazd Andrejc is Junior Research Fellow at The Woolf Institute, Cambridge, and Research Associate at St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK.