Scriptures and the Guidance of Language : Evaluating a Religious Authority in Communicative Action
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1108473210
ISBN-13
9781108473217
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 18th, 2018
Print length
328 Pages
Weight
592 grams
Dimensions
16.30 x 23.60 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy of religionComparative religionPhilosophy of religionComparative religion
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Offers general readers a powerful kit of ideas for thinking both appreciatively and critically about the relevance of religious scriptures and their place in our culture without being bound by the standards of one religious tradition or one style of scripturalism.
In this book, Steven G. Smith focuses on the guidance function in language and scripture and evaluates the assumptions and ideals of scriptural religion in global perspective. He brings to language studies a new pragmatic emphasis on the shared modeling of life-in-the-world by communicators constantly depending on each other''s guidance. Using concepts of axiality and axialization derived from Jaspers'' description of the ''Axial Age'', he shows the essential role of scripture in the historical progress of communicative action. This volume clarifies the formative power of scriptures in religions of the ''world religion'' type and brings scripture into philosophy of religion as a major cross-cultural category of study, thereby helping philosophy of religion find a needed cross-cultural footing.
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