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- Title
THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE AND COMMUNITY IN THEOLOGY.
- Authors
Shatalov, Ye. O.
- Abstract
The article presents the role of language and community in theology in the Stanley J. Grenz’s theological methodology. The language plays a vital role in Grenz’s theological method. In the process of dialogue with contemporary linguists and philosophers, Grenz abandons the referential theory of language together with the correspondence theory of truth. The main thesis of modern theologians is that language creates symbolic space or the context in which reality finds its realization (be it Ultimate or even our daily reality). The contemporary speech- act theory shows that language does much more than only shaping the community sociologically. Knowledge can be personal but it can also be communal, and in this way, we can really talk about community «interpreting». Considering the importance of ritual and narrative for our knowledge formation together with the symbolic nature of language, which is able to direct one’s participation in God, we conclude that community is vital for Christian epistemology.
- Subjects
THEOLOGY; GRENZ, Stanley J.; LINGUISTS; LANGUAGE &; languages; THEORY of knowledge
- Publication
Hileya: Scientific Bulletin / Gileya, 2018, Issue 135, p179
- ISSN
2076-1554
- Publication type
Article