Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Religion as A Kind of Apophatic Theology

• Authors: Jakub Gomułka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In my article I present a conceptual model of classification of philosophical and theological conceptions of religion within Western philosophy and the Christian religious tradition. The model has four independent dimensions: the factual, the metaphysical, the ethical and the apophatic. The first and the second dimensions are cognitive, while the third and the fourth are non-cognitive. The fourth dimension should not be identified with the old tradition of apophatic theology because, according to the model, the latter is a mixture of two (or even more) dimensions. The second part of my paper is devoted to the Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion developed by the members of the so-called Swansea School. My thesis is that, despite of their self-characterisation as philosophers, they present an extreme version of apophatic theology because their view on religion is, in the light of my conceptual model, one-dimensional.

Keywords

EN

apophatic theology; Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion; Swansea School; Rush Rhees; Peter G; Winch; Dewi Z; Phillips

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Religiologica
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 165–172

Dates

online

2013-01-22

Contributors

author

Jakub Gomułka

• Faculty of Philosophy Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/20844077SR.12.013.0966