TRUE COMMUNIONISM: GARY SNYDER'S TRANSVALUATION OF SOME CHRISTIAN TERMINOLOGY
Many seekers have been repelled by the bloatedness, hollowness, and unreality of the staple language of Christian preaching and theologising. The unreality of the God such language represents, the product of devotional fantasy combined with tired efforts at speculation, accords with the equal unreal...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1988
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Journal for the study of religion
Year: 1988, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 63-75 |
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| Summary: | Many seekers have been repelled by the bloatedness, hollowness, and unreality of the staple language of Christian preaching and theologising. The unreality of the God such language represents, the product of devotional fantasy combined with tired efforts at speculation, accords with the equal unreality of its presentation of 'the human condition'. [....] Theology no less than philosophy or literature is a permanent war with language. |
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| ISSN: | 2413-3027 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion
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