1st Edition
God in the Act of Reference Debating Religious Realism and Non-Realism
By Erica Appelros
Copyright 2001
220 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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To claim to believe in God without accepting that God exists independently of human minds would mean reducing God to merely a human construct, thus not real enough for being the object of religious worship. This book sets out to challenge this common view on existence and religious belief. Arguing from concrete examples of language use in children's make-believe play and other ordinary... Read more
Contents: Realists and non-realists; Reality as conceptualized; Reference as context dependent; Reference and reality in make-believe contexts; An analysis of reference and reality in religion; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Erica Appelros
'... this work offers a re-evaluation of the way in which we understand the sense in which our language may 'refer' to God. Modern Believing
