| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 146 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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, the Catholic notion of receptive tradition is an attempt to cope rationally with the fragility of perception and language in humanity's orientation toward God |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Translated into English from the German |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 02, 2021) |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Dogma, Development of.
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Dogma, Development of
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pound, Marcus, author of introduction, etc.
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Stone, Barbara, translator
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| ISBN |
9781506473697 |
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1506473695 |
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