Effing the ineffable : existential mumblings at the limits of language / Wesley J. Wildman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wildman, Wesley J., 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life--Religious aspects.

Life.

Philosophy and religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2018]

Summary:

In Effing the Ineffable, Wesley J. Wildman confronts the human obsession with ultimate reality and our desire to conceive and speak of this reality through religious language, despite the seeming impossibility of doing so. Each chapter is a meditative essay on an aspect of life that, for most people, is fraught with special spiritual significance: dreaming, suffering, creating, slipping, balancing, eclipsing, loneliness, intensity, and bliss. These moments can inspire religious questioning and commitment, and, in extreme situations, drive us in search of ways to express what matters most to us. Drawing upon American pragmatist, Anglo-American analytic, and Continental traditions of philosophical theology, Wildman shows how, through direct description, religious symbolism, and phenomenological experience, the language games of religion become a means to attempt, and, in some sense, to accomplish this task.

Contents:

Ultimacy talk

Dreaming

Suffering

Creating

Ultimacy systems

Slipping

Balancing

Eclipsing

Ultimacy manifestations

Loneliness

Intensity

Bliss.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438471259

1438471254