Christian Languages and Cultural Communication: The Problems, Questions, and Challenges Michel de Certeau Poses to Theological Language
Michel de Certeau’s work questions the theological discipline surrounding language. Although Certeau does not directly elaborate a theory of theological language, his intellectual project addresses the approaching crisis of the Church in the post-Vatican II era as a symptom of the broader crisis of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
Year: 2025, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-30 |
| Further subjects: | B
theological languages
B Everyday Life B nominalist rupture B mystical language B desontologization |
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| Summary: | Michel de Certeau’s work questions the theological discipline surrounding language. Although Certeau does not directly elaborate a theory of theological language, his intellectual project addresses the approaching crisis of the Church in the post-Vatican II era as a symptom of the broader crisis of culture and institutions in the West. This implies an archaeology of the erosion of language and its yet-unexplored possibilities. This progressive awareness of the epistemological consequences of the 14th-century nominalist rupture involves the desontologized language (mainly, but not only, that of Tradition); a complex and fruitful analysis of modern mystical language (dialogical and relational), which continues to problematize the subsisting vestiges of clerical theological language (non-dialogical and patriarchal); and a theoretical and practical vindication of the ordinary language, which opens up enormous possibilities for a theology and spirituality capable of taking cultures and everyday life as the place where a believing subjectivity emerges in our contemporaries. |
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| ISSN: | 2364-2807 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30965/23642807-bja10117 |
