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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 December 2009
      03 June 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511612176
      9780521590303
      9780521668064
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511612176
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.365kg, 184 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.26kg, 184 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Religion, Philosophy, Theology
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine (2)
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy: General Interest, Religion, Philosophy, Theology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine (2)
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    This book cuts new ground in bringing together traditional Christian theological perspectives on truth and reality with a contemporary philosophical view of the place of language in both divine and wordly reality. Patterson seeks to reconcile the requirements that Christian theology should both take account of postmodern insights concerning the inextricability of language and world as well as taking God's truth to be absolute for all reality. Yet it is not simply about theological language and truth as such. Instead Patterson asks: where does language fit in divine and human reality? Patterson's discussion straddles realist, liberal-revisionist and postliberal theological schools, and critiques their various positions before going on to utilise selectively their insights to develop and apply a theological model of 'language-ridden' reality. This model affirms that worldly reality has a radical dependence on God. Finally, the book explores the theological and ethical implications of the model it proposes.

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