Theology within the Bounds of Language: A Methodological Tour

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Notes Preface 1. Koyama, Water Buffalo Theology, x. 2. Hoy and McCarthy, Critical Theory, 63. Cf. Føllesdal, “Triangulation,” 719: “Philosophers and linguists have always said that language is a social institution. They have, however, immediately forgotten this and have adopted notions of meaning that are not publicly accessible and where it remains unclear how such entities are grasped by us.” 3. E.g, Logic for the Labyrinth: A Guide to Critical Thinking; Essentialism: A Wittgensteinian Critique; Language and Truth; A Middle Way to God; Identity and Mystery: Late-Wittgensteinian Perspectives; Linguistic Philosophy: The Central Story. 4. A sampling of books (alphabetically by author): Alston, Divine Nature and Human Language; Ayers and Blackstone, Religious Language and Knowledge; Boeve and Feyaerts, Metaphor and God-Talk; Braaten, Our Naming of God; Brown, Do Religious Claims Make Sense?; Burke, The Rhetoric of Religion; Burrell, Analogy and Philosophical Language; Castelli, L’Analyse du langage théologique; Charlesworth, The Problem of Religious Language; Christian, Meaning and Truth in Religion; Clarke, Language and Natural Theology; Dewart, Religion, Language, and Truth; D’Hert, Wittgenstein’s Relevance for Theology; Donovan, Religious Language; Downey, Beginning at the Beginning: Wittgenstein and Theological Conversation; Ebeling, Introduction to a Theological Theory of Language; Fawcett, The Symbolic Language of Religion; Ferré, Language, Logic, and God; Fox, Mystery and Meaning; Frankenberry and Penner, Language, Truth, and Religious Belief; Gabus, Critique du discours théologique; Gilkey, Naming the Whirlwind; Grabner-Heider, Semiotik und Theologie; High, New Essays on Religious Language; Hutchison, Language and Faith; Jeffner, The Study of Religious Language; Jennings, Beyond Theism: A Grammar of God-Language; Kaempfert, Probleme der religiösen Sprache; Kerr, Theology after Wittgenstein; Kimpel, Language and Religion; Kort, Bound to Differ: The Dynamics of Theological Discourses; Lundeen, Risk and Rhetoric in Religion; Macquarrie, God-Talk; Malherbe, Le langage théologique a l’âge de la science; Marranzini, Il linguaggio teologico oggi; McCutcheon, Religion within the Limits of Language Alone; McFague, Metaphorical Theology and Speaking in Parables; Mertens and Boeve, Naming God 229 230 Notes to Chapter 2 Today; Mondin, Il problema del linguaggio teologico dalle origini ad oggi; Need, Human Language and Knowledge in the Light of Chalcedon; O’Callaghan, Thomist Realism and the Linguistic Turn; Palmer, Analogy: A Study of Qualification and Argument in Theology; Pastor, La lógica de lo inefable; Porter, The Nature of Religious Language; Ramsey, Christian Discourse and Religious Language; Ross, Portraying Analogy; Scharlemann, Naming God; Sherry, Religion, Truth, and Language-Games; Smith, Speech and Theology; Soskice, Metaphor and Religious Language; TeSelle, Speaking in Parables; Tilley, Talking of God; Tonkin and Keef, Language in Religion; Torrance, The Ground and Grammar of Theology; Tracy and Cobb, Talking about God; Van Buren, The Edges of Language: An Essay in the Logic of a Religion. 5. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §203. 6. Gasking and Jackson, “Wittgenstein as a Teacher,” 51. Chapter 1. The Terrain Ahead 1. Ford, “Epilogue,” 720. 2. Macquarrie, Principles of Christian Theology, 1. 3. Nygren, Meaning and Method, 2. 4. Pannenberg, Theology and the Philosophy of Science, 6. 5. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §69. 6. Schillebeeckx, Revelation and Theology, 93. 7. Kaufman, An Essay on Theological Method, ix. 8. Carnes, Axiomatics and Dogmatics, 57. 9. Tavard, La théologie, 70. 10. Gadamer, Truth and Method, 321. 11. Ibid., 432. 12. Gilkey, Naming the Whirlwind, 233. 13. Ibid., 234. 14. Fisichella, “Langage théologique,” 727. 15. Macquarrie, God-Talk, 18–19. 16. Geffré, The Risk of Interpretation, 59. 17. Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, 161. 18. Ferré, Language, Logic and God, 105. 19. Jenson, Systematic Theology, vol. 1, 3. 20. O’Collins, Fundamental Theology, 15; original emphasis. 21. Labourdette, “Moral Theology,” 1123. 22. Ferré, Basic Modern Philosophy of Religion, 30; original emphasis. 23. Thomas and Wondra, Introduction to Theology, 19. Chapter 2. Language and Thought 1. Haight, Dynamics of Theology, 176. 2. Putnam, “Language and Philosophy,” 14. 231 Notes to Chapter 3 3. Arnauld, The Art of Thinking, 90. 4. Schleiermacher, Hermeneutics, 8. 5. Tavard, La théologie, 69. 6. Macquarrie, Thinking about God, 3. 7. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Grammar, 106. 8. Wittgenstein, Zettel, §100. 9. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §329. 10. Moore, Commonplace Book 1919–1953, 19; Moore’s emphasis. 11. Ibid., 21; Moore’s emphasis. 12. Indeed, they would make the existence of such an essence less likely. For then, in order for the word defined to designate an essence, each of the defining expressions would have to do so. Cf. Hallett, Logic for...