Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language by Wildman, Wesley J.

Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781438471242)

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Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language by Wildman, Wesley J.

Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language

$34.95
Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language by Wildman, Wesley J.

Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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In Effing the Ineffable, Wesley J. Wildman confronts the human obsession with ultimate reality and our desire to conceive and speak of this reality through religious language, despite the seeming impossibility of doing so. Each chapter is a meditative essay on an aspect of life that, for most people, is fraught with special spiritual significance: dreaming, suffering, creating, slipping, balancing, eclipsing, loneliness, intensity, and bliss. These moments can inspire religious questioning and commitment, and, in extreme situations, drive us in search of ways to express what matters most to us. Drawing upon American pragmatist, Anglo-American analytic, and Continental traditions of philosophical theology, Wildman shows how, through direct description, religious symbolism, and phenomenological experience, the language games of religion become a means to attempt, and, in some sense, to accomplish this task.

Author: Wesley J. Wildman
ISBN-10: 1438471246
ISBN-13: 9781438471242
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 07/02/2019
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
By Wesley J. Wildman
By Wesley J. Wildman
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Wesley J. Wildman is Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics at Boston University. His many books include Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry: Envisioning a Future for the Philosophy of Religion and Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century, both also published by SUNY Press.

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