Effing the Ineffable
Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language
1st Edition
Published on 9. October 2018
256 pages
978-1-4384-7125-9 (ISBN)
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A meditation on how religious language tries to limn the liminal, conceive the inconceivable, speak the unspeakable, and say the unsayable.
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Wesley J. Wildman is Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics at Boston University. His many books include Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry: Envisioning a Future for the Philosophy of Religion and Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century, both also published by SUNY Press.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Ultimacy Talk
1. Dreaming
2. Suffering
3. Creating
Part II. Ultimacy Systems
4. Slipping
5. Balancing
6. Eclipsing
Part III. Ultimacy Manifestations
7. Loneliness
8. Intensity
9. Bliss
The Treachery of Words (This Is Not a Conclusion)
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
Part I. Ultimacy Talk
1. Dreaming
2. Suffering
3. Creating
Part II. Ultimacy Systems
4. Slipping
5. Balancing
6. Eclipsing
Part III. Ultimacy Manifestations
7. Loneliness
8. Intensity
9. Bliss
The Treachery of Words (This Is Not a Conclusion)
Works Cited
Index
