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Intro
Contents
About the Contributors
A Journey Beyond Babel
1 Babel: From Plurality to Pluralism
2 Going Beyond Babel
3 Specificities
4 Structure and Content
4.1 Religious Limits of Language
4.2 Interreligious and Interlinguistic Encounters
4.3 Religious Identities in Translation
4.4 Scientific Codes and Religious Meanings
4.5 Formal Languages Dealing with Religious Concepts
5 Origin and Future Steps
References
Part I: Religious Limits of Language
Divine Language
1 Divine Linguistic Competence
2 Divine Private Language
3 Divine Language of Thought
4 Concluding Remarks
Appendix
References
Language Without a Code: Islamic Geometry and Modernity
1 Between Theorization and Affect in Islamic Articulations of Geometric Meaning
2 Between Grammar and Ornament in European Articulations of Geometric Meaning
3 Between Rationalists and Spiritualists in Modern Abstraction
4 Between Gallery and God in Exhibitions of the 1970s
5 Between Shrines and Grids in the Art of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1922-2019)
6 Between Grids and Representation in the `Kitsch ́of M. C. Escher (1898-1972)
7 Geometry: Language Without a Code?
References
At the Foot of Babel: Disclosure and Concealment
1 Does Language Clarify or Confuse?
2 The Axial Beyond Becomes Intimate
3 Awareness of the Beyond
4 Transcendent Justice and the Universal Humanum
5 Speaking About the Ineffable Beyond
6 The Primacy of Scriptural Metaphors and Symbols
7 Theology as Rational Reflection on Symbolic Discourse
8 Theology as Freedom
9 Conclusion
References
Ineffability: Its Origins and Problems
1 The Problems of Ineffability
2 The Metaphysics of Ineffability
3 Revealed Language
4 The Theology of ``Effability: ́́A God That Speaks
5 Philosophy in Aid of Theology
6 Interreligious Dialogue
References
Would We Speak If We Did Not Have to Die?
1 Introduction
2 Speaking and Unavailability
3 Prayer as a Borderline Case of Language
4 The Linguistic Form of Prayer
References
Part II: Interreligious and Interlinguistic Encounters
Interreligious Empathy and Linguistic Plurality
1 Introduction
2 Interreligious Empathy
3 Sympathy
4 Experience
5 Imagination
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
A Sākta Theory on Religions in a Linguistic Pluralism
1 The Devī Mahātmyam
2 Rahasyam Trayam: The Three Secrets
3 Samai-Vyai: Concurring Unity-Diversity
4 Conclusion
Bibliography
On the Power of Imperfect Words: An Inquiry into the Revelatory Power of a Single Hindu Verse
1 An Understated Vision
2 Reading with the Tradition
3 Seeing Indirectly
Bibliography
Tiruviruttam
Other References
On the Oscillation Model and Its Logic
1 Introduction
2 Examples of Oscillation: Interreligious Meetings
3 Other Examples of Oscillation
Contents
About the Contributors
A Journey Beyond Babel
1 Babel: From Plurality to Pluralism
2 Going Beyond Babel
3 Specificities
4 Structure and Content
4.1 Religious Limits of Language
4.2 Interreligious and Interlinguistic Encounters
4.3 Religious Identities in Translation
4.4 Scientific Codes and Religious Meanings
4.5 Formal Languages Dealing with Religious Concepts
5 Origin and Future Steps
References
Part I: Religious Limits of Language
Divine Language
1 Divine Linguistic Competence
2 Divine Private Language
3 Divine Language of Thought
4 Concluding Remarks
Appendix
References
Language Without a Code: Islamic Geometry and Modernity
1 Between Theorization and Affect in Islamic Articulations of Geometric Meaning
2 Between Grammar and Ornament in European Articulations of Geometric Meaning
3 Between Rationalists and Spiritualists in Modern Abstraction
4 Between Gallery and God in Exhibitions of the 1970s
5 Between Shrines and Grids in the Art of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1922-2019)
6 Between Grids and Representation in the `Kitsch ́of M. C. Escher (1898-1972)
7 Geometry: Language Without a Code?
References
At the Foot of Babel: Disclosure and Concealment
1 Does Language Clarify or Confuse?
2 The Axial Beyond Becomes Intimate
3 Awareness of the Beyond
4 Transcendent Justice and the Universal Humanum
5 Speaking About the Ineffable Beyond
6 The Primacy of Scriptural Metaphors and Symbols
7 Theology as Rational Reflection on Symbolic Discourse
8 Theology as Freedom
9 Conclusion
References
Ineffability: Its Origins and Problems
1 The Problems of Ineffability
2 The Metaphysics of Ineffability
3 Revealed Language
4 The Theology of ``Effability: ́́A God That Speaks
5 Philosophy in Aid of Theology
6 Interreligious Dialogue
References
Would We Speak If We Did Not Have to Die?
1 Introduction
2 Speaking and Unavailability
3 Prayer as a Borderline Case of Language
4 The Linguistic Form of Prayer
References
Part II: Interreligious and Interlinguistic Encounters
Interreligious Empathy and Linguistic Plurality
1 Introduction
2 Interreligious Empathy
3 Sympathy
4 Experience
5 Imagination
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
A Sākta Theory on Religions in a Linguistic Pluralism
1 The Devī Mahātmyam
2 Rahasyam Trayam: The Three Secrets
3 Samai-Vyai: Concurring Unity-Diversity
4 Conclusion
Bibliography
On the Power of Imperfect Words: An Inquiry into the Revelatory Power of a Single Hindu Verse
1 An Understated Vision
2 Reading with the Tradition
3 Seeing Indirectly
Bibliography
Tiruviruttam
Other References
On the Oscillation Model and Its Logic
1 Introduction
2 Examples of Oscillation: Interreligious Meetings
3 Other Examples of Oscillation