Languages of ineffability: the rediscovery of apophaticism in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion

Gäb, Sebastian (2020): Languages of ineffability: the rediscovery of apophaticism in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion. In: Hüsch, Sebastian; Koch, Isabelle und Thomas, Philipp (Hrsg.): Negative Knowledge. Negative Knowledge. Les Connaissances négatives. Basler Studien zur Philosophie, Bd. 20. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. S. 191-207

Abstract

I present and discuss recent work in analytic philosophy of religion on apophaticism and divine ineffability. I focus on three questions: how can we call God ineffable without contradicting ourselves? How can we refer to an ineffable God? What is the point of talking about an ineffable God?

• Dokumententyp: Buchbeitrag
• Publikationsform: Postprint
• Keywords: ineffability, religious language, William Alston, John Hick, apophaticism, apophatic theology, negative theology
• Fakultät: Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft
• Themengebiete: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 100 Philosophie
• ISBN: 978-3-7720-8686-1 ; 978-3-7720-5686-4
• Ort: Tübingen
• Sprache: Englisch