This book critically examines three distinct interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein, those of George Lindbeck, David Tracy, and David Burrell, while paying special attention to the topic of interreligious disagreement. In theological and philosophical work on interreligious communication, Ludwig Wittgenstein has been interpreted in very different, sometimes contradicting ways. This is partly due to the nature of Wittgenstein¿s philosophical investigation, which does not consist of a theory nor does it posit theses about religion, but includes several, varying conceptions of religion. In this volume, Gorazd Andrej¿ illustrates how assorted uptakes of Wittgenstein¿s conceptions of religion, and the differing theological perspectives of the authors who formulated them, shape interpretations of interreligious disagreement and dialogue. Inspired by selected perspectives from Tillichian philosophical theology, the book suggests a new way of engaging both descriptive and normative aspects of Wittgenstein¿s conceptions of religion in the interpretation of interreligious disagreement.

Offers a very thorough critical and comparative analysis of different, influential approaches to the relation between various faiths (or religions)More current, with regard to Wittgenstein scholarship, than previous studiesArgues for a unique interpretation of interfaith disagreement and communication, which brings together elements of Wittgenstein's conceptions of religion while also going beyond those existing conceptions

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