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Religious Skeptic

Religious Skeptic RELIGIOUS SKEPTIC1 DINDA L. GORLÉE The importance of Tim Labron's Wittgenstein and Theory arises from two sources. It attempts to articulate the revealed truth about theology presented in the life and work of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Then it broadens the argument from a truth-searching experiment to a "hard" version of theological foundationalism. The author singles out the worldwide philosopher of language's religious beliefs together with what is known of his rational or intuitive formulation of God and his relationships to man and the world. The differences between Wittgenstein and theology is a logical difference between Wittgenstein's soul-searching writings, including the adventures of his private life, placed within Labron's Lutheran Protestant thought about the professional value of theology. In the introduction, the author spells out the differences between the two approaches, telling that "Wittgenstein's philosophy through the lens of theology and the philosophy of religion" seemed hard to understand "in light of the multitude of voices and contradictions" (3). Did Wittgenstein believe in God, or was he an anxiety-ridden atheist or agnostic, or speculating as a mystic? Considering the different voices of philosophy and religion, Labron proceeds with a short biography of Wittgenstein (10-19). The stories are depicted as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png symploke University of Nebraska Press

Religious Skeptic

Gorlée, Dinda L.
symploke , Volume 18 (1) – May 18, 2011
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RELIGIOUS SKEPTIC1 DINDA L. GORLÉE The importance of Tim Labron's Wittgenstein and Theory arises from two sources. It attempts to articulate the revealed truth about theology presented in the life and work of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Then it broadens the argument from a truth-searching experiment to a "hard" version of theological foundationalism. The author singles out the worldwide philosopher of language's religious beliefs together with what is known of his rational or intuitive formulation of God and his relationships to man and the world. The differences between Wittgenstein and theology is a logical difference between Wittgenstein's soul-searching writings, including the adventures of his private life, placed within Labron's Lutheran Protestant thought about the professional value of theology. In the introduction, the author spells out the differences between the two approaches, telling that "Wittgenstein's philosophy through the lens of theology and the philosophy of religion" seemed hard to understand "in light of the multitude of voices and contradictions" (3). Did Wittgenstein believe in God, or was he an anxiety-ridden atheist or agnostic, or speculating as a mystic? Considering the different voices of philosophy and religion, Labron proceeds with a short biography of Wittgenstein (10-19). The stories are depicted as

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