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This article begins with an overview of Wittgenstein’s ideas on language and their application to theology. Rowan Williams took up the way we use language and the possibilities of speaking about God in his 2014 Gifford lectures and the associated book, The Edge of Words. The book exemplifies Williams’s encounter with Wittgenstein and other philosophers of language. But it is deliberately limited to natural theology and does not say a great deal about revealed theology. Thus the article goes on to look at Williams’s understanding of the place of language in the Christian story more generally.
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Wittgenstein has contributed to the foundations of his theology, but Williams’s creativeness has long surpassed being influenced by another thinker in a simple way.
Mr Brian McKinlay
Charles Sturt University
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This page is a summary of: Ludwig Wittgenstein in Rowan Williams's Theological Account of Language, New Blackfriars, June 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/nbfr.12225.
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