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Series:   Elements in the Philosophy of Religion

Religious Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Olli-Pekka Vainio
Olli-Pekka Vainio
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University of Helsinki

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What does it mean to use language religiously? How does religious language differ from our ordinary linguistic practices? Can religious language have meaning? Among others, these questions are part of the so-called problem of religious language, which originates from the peculiar object of many religious claims, that is, the transcendent, or more precisely, God.
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religious languagemysticismpositivismfictionalism

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Series: Elements in the Philosophy of Religion
Online ISBN: 9781108668224
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Print publication: 24 December 2020

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