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What Do We Mean By God?: A Little Book of Guidance
Keith Ward
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Description for What Do We Mean By God?: A Little Book of Guidance
Paperback. Keith Ward unpacks the meaning of the word 'God' and explains why we need to get rid of the crude and unhelpful assumptions that still abound. A book for all who are curious about how God, and God's actions, can be understood today. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 6. Weight in Grams: 54.
Language about God is something like the language of poetry - The poetic use of language is not to increase your information about the world. We know facts about the world without having poetry. The use of words in poetry is to evoke in us a certain attitude or way of looking at things or feeling about things...If this is the use of religious language, what sort of view of the world is it trying to convey? I think we might say it is trying to convey that the world is an expression of a reality beyond it...' Keith Ward ... Read more
Language about God is something like the language of poetry - The poetic use of language is not to increase your information about the world. We know facts about the world without having poetry. The use of words in poetry is to evoke in us a certain attitude or way of looking at things or feeling about things...If this is the use of religious language, what sort of view of the world is it trying to convey? I think we might say it is trying to convey that the world is an expression of a reality beyond it...' Keith Ward ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
SPCK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780281073283
SKU
V9780281073283
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-47
About Keith Ward
Keith Ward, FBA, is Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College, London. He was formerly Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and is one of the world's most distinguished theologians.
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