The Nature of religious language : : a colloquium / edited by Stanley E. Porter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Porter, Stanley E., 1956-

Series:

Roehampton Institute London papers ; 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Religious aspects--Christianity--Congresses.

Language and languages.

Christianity and literature--Congresses.

Christianity and literature.

Congresses and conventions.

Language and languages--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Physical Description:

312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, [1996]

Summary:

The papers in this volume were presented at a conference held at the Roehampton Institute, London, in February 1995, and are concerned with either theological or literary issues related to the nature of religious language. The papers suggest further issues that are still unresolved about the nature of religious language, from its early usage in the biblical texts to its recent use in contemporary writing and religious discourse.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Theology. Problems in the language of the Bible / Stanley E. Porter

The historical Jesus and the deified Christ / Craig A. Evans

Translating the Bible / David Daniell

Voice genres : the case of televangelical language / John O. Thompson

Charismatic mysticism : a sociological analysis of the 'Toronto blessing' / Philip Richter

Postmodernism, a/theology, and the possiblity of language as universal eucharist / J. Stephen Fountain

God and language : a feminist perspective on the meaning of 'god' / Beverley Clack

Invisible women : gender and the exclusive language debate / Linda Thomas

From performativity to pedagogy : Jean Ladrière and the pragmatics of Reformed worship discourse / David Hilborn

Analogy : Aquinas and Pannenberg / Michael Nevin

pt. 2. Literature. Living powers : sacred and secular language in European Romanticism / David Jasper

In the belly of the whale : the rise and fall of religious language in the early modern period / Gerald Hammond

Conceits of mind, conceits of body : Dionys Fitzherbert and the discourses of religion and madness / Katharine Hodgkin

'Speaking to God in his phrase and word' : women's use of the Psalms in early modern England / Suzanne Trill

Religious persuasion and the language of poetry / Pat Pinsent

Expressing the inexpressible : religious language and the unholy / Kevin McCarron.

Notes:

Papers originally presented at a conference held at Roehampton Institute London, Feb. 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1850755809

1850757836

OCLC:

37213778