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God-Talk - An Examination of the Language and Logic of Theology (Paperback, New edition)
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God-Talk - An Examination of the Language and Logic of Theology (Paperback, New edition)
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he book has a genuine unity, and I can think of no better
introduction for theological students to the variety of problems
about language which confront the contemporary theologian.
Analytical philosophy, existentialism, the problems of biblical
criticism and those of continental neo-Protestant theology are
allowed to contribute to a single argument in which Macquarrie is
able to pose the problems of man's likeness to God and of
anthropomorphism with a welcome degree of precision. Macquanle's
strength is that he is straightforwardly writing from within
theology. His exposition of Saint Athanasius on the Incarnation
propounds squarely the claim that Christianity entails empirical
judgments, that in principle at least it is refutable by the facts,
if they are of one kind rather than another' (Alasdair MacIntyre in
The Guardian). 'He lucidly explains the issues raised for Christian
belief both by empiricist analytical philosophy and by
existentialist hermeneutics. The hermerteutical question is
brilliantly illuminated by an exposition of Athanasius's De
Incamatione, and all the problems of mythology, symbolic language,
analogy and paradox are carefully sorted out' (Alan Richardson in
Theology). 'Following the lead of the later Wittgenstein,
Macquarrie holds that we must allow each linguistic form to
disclose its own logic. The dominant characteristic of all
religious and theological language is its obliqueness. It speaks in
terms of myth, symbol and analogy. Macquarrie . makes it plain that
existentialist interpretation cannot exhaust the meaning of
theological language. He clearly sees that if theology can be
totally interpreted in this way, then it is reduced to
anthropology. We must progress through existential interpretation
to ontology-to talk about the transcendent Being of God.... The
book does not finally solve the problems which it raises and does
not claim to. But it develops a very promising manner of tackling
them. Above all it is a very timely counter-poise to those
over-facile analyses of the logic of theology which result in a
kind of Christian atheism. John Macquarrie seems to me to grow in
both spiritual and intellectual stature with every book he writes'
(The Expository Times).
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