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

Published: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, [1996]
Copyright Date: ©1996
Physical Description: 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators: Porter, Stanley E., 1956-

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Series

Roehampton Institute London papers ; 1.

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 possibility 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.

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ISBN

1850755809
1850757836 (pbk.)

Note

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

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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