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Effing the Ineffable : Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language by Wesley J. Wildman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.

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Author

Wesley J. Wildman

Publisher

State University of New York Press (SUNY Press)

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781438471259

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Religion, Humanities