Steven G. Smith

Scriptures and the Guidance of Language

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers general readers a powerful kit of ideas for thinking both appreciatively and critically about the relevance of religious scriptures and their place in our culture without being bound by the standards of one religious tradition or one style of scripturalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9781108473217
• ISBN-10: 1108473210
• Artikelnr.: 52423961

Autorenporträt

Steven G. Smith is a professor of philosophy and religious studies at Millsaps College, Mississippi and the author of numerous works in philosophy of religion and related fields, including The Concept of the Spiritual (1988), Gender Thinking (1992), Worth Doing (2004), Appeal and Attitude (2005), Full History (2016), and Centering and Extending (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Problematics of Communicative Action: Introduction: on the powers and problematics of language
1. The guidance problematic
2. The speaking problematic
3. The writing problematic
4. The religious language problematic
Part II. Problematics of Scripture: 5. What is scripture?
6. Evaluating the scripture premise
7. The scripturalist
8. Multiscripturalism
Concluding thoughts on the necessity of guidance and ideal scripturalism.