Scriptures and the Guidance of Language: Evaluating a Religious Authority in Communicative Action

Steven G. Smith

doi:10.1017/9781108580441

Scriptures and the Guidance of Language

Evaluating a Religious Authority in Communicative Action

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Steven G. Smith, Millsaps College, Mississippi

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: October 2018
Print publication year:: 2018
Online ISBN:: 9781108580441
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108580441

Subjects:: Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Mind and Language, Religion, Philosophy

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In this book, Steven G. Smith focuses on the guidance function in language and scripture and evaluates the assumptions and ideals of scriptural religion in global perspective. He brings to language studies a new pragmatic emphasis on the shared modeling of life-in-the-world by communicators constantly depending on each other's guidance. Using concepts of axiality and axialization derived from Jaspers' description of the 'Axial Age', he shows the essential role of scripture in the historical progress of communicative action. This volume clarifies the formative power of scriptures in religions of the 'world religion' type and brings scripture into philosophy of religion as a major cross-cultural category of study, thereby helping philosophy of religion find a needed cross-cultural footing.

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Evaluating a Religious Authority in Communicative Action

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Scriptures and the Guidance of Language
pp i-ii

Scriptures and the Guidance of Language - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-vii

Acknowledgments
pp viii-viii

Part I - Problematics of Communicative Action
pp 1-134

Introduction
pp 3-9

1 - The Guidance Problematic
pp 10-38

2 - The Speaking Problematic
pp 39-76

3 - The Writing Problematic
pp 77-102

4 - The Religious Language Problematic
pp 103-134

Part II - Problematics of Scripture
pp 135-292

5 - What Is Scripture?
pp 137-183

6 - Evaluating the Scripture Premise
pp 184-234

7 - The Scripturalist
pp 235-265

8 - Multiscripturalism
pp 266-292

Concluding Thoughts on the Necessity of Guidance and Ideal Scripturalism
pp 293-297

Bibliography
pp 298-310

Index
pp 311-320

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