The Fragility of Language and the Encounter with God : On the Contingency and Legitimacy of Doctrine /

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The Fragility of Language and the Encounter with God offers a theological account of the contingency of language and perception and of how acknowledging that contingency transforms the question of the development of doctrine. Klug argues that statements of faith cannot overcome contingency. Instead,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klug, Florian, 1987- (Author)
Other Authors: Stone, Barbara (Translator), Pound, Marcus (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Language and languages > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Dogma, Development of.
Developpement du dogme.
Langage et langues > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The primary epistemological question
  • 1. Man and language
  • Man as a speaking being
  • Limitations and possibilities of human speech
  • 2. God's initiative: God's intrusion into man's horizon of understanding
  • Prolegomena to a view of God in the twenty-first century
  • God's intrusion into the world of the Israelites
  • God's self-revelation through Jesus Christ
  • The human horizon and the intrusion of absolute reality
  • 3. Human speech about God
  • The perspective of the faithful
  • The testimony of faith
  • The subjective relationship to truth: Paul in his contemporary horizon
  • The Bible as Holy Scripture
  • The hermeneutics of doctrine within human time
  • 4. Conclusion.

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