Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Religion as A Kind of Apophatic Theology
In my article I present a conceptual model of classification of philosophical and theological conceptions of religion within Western philosophy and the Christian religious tradition. The model has four independent dimensions: the factual, the metaphysical, the ethical and the apophatic. The first an...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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Studia religiologica
Year: 2012, Volume: 45, Issue: 3, Pages: 165-172 |
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apophatic theology
B Dewi Z. Phillips B Swansea School B Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion B Peter G. Winch B Wittgensteinowska filozofi a religii B teologia apofatyczna B Rush Rhees B Szkoła ze Swansea |
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| Summary: | In my article I present a conceptual model of classification of philosophical and theological conceptions of religion within Western philosophy and the Christian religious tradition. The model has four independent dimensions: the factual, the metaphysical, the ethical and the apophatic. The first and the second dimensions are cognitive, while the third and the fourth are non-cognitive. The fourth dimension should not be identified with the old tradition of apophatic theology because, according to the model, the latter is a mixture of two (or even more) dimensions. The second part of my paper is devoted to the Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion developed by the members of the so-called Swansea School. My thesis is that, despite of their self-characterisation as philosophers, they present an extreme version of apophatic theology because their view on religion is, in the light of my conceptual model, one-dimensional. |
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| ISSN: | 2084-4077 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studia religiologica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4467/20844077SR.12.013.0966 |
