Language, Grammar and a Map
(2013) International Conference Theology in a Postmodern Context — Location: Prague
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- The presentation will discuss new modes of understanding religious truth-claims based on George Lindbeck’s conceptualization of dogma in terms of language rules. In the first part of the presentation, I will present structuralist and post-structuralist view on language and semiotics and their implications on understandings of religious discourse. In the second part of the presentation, I will then cover Lindbeck’s way of presenting religious dogmas in a non-relativistic way, which is nevertheless open to new contextual developments. Finally, I will discuss basic challenges to his approaches, primarily the internal heterogeneity of religious discourse and overt emphasis on cognition and language.
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Odak, S. (2013). Language, Grammar and a Map. International Conference Theology in a Postmodern Context, Prague. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/125774