Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language

Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language

Author
Wesley J. Wildman
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Language
English
Year
2018
Page
258
ISBN
1438471254,9781438471259
File Type
pdf
File Size
1.9 MiB

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.

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