%0 Journal Article
%T Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Religion as A Kind of Apophatic Theology
%A Gomułka, Jakub
%J Studia Religiologica
%V 2012
%R 10.4467/20844077SR.12.013.0966
%N Tom 45, Numer 3
%P 165-172
%K apophatic theology, Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion, Swansea School, Rush Rhees, Peter G. Winch, Dewi Z. Phillips ;  teologia apofatyczna, Wittgensteinowska filozofi a religii, Szkoła ze Swansea, Dewi Z. Phillips
%@ 0137-2432
%D 2013
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-religiologica/artykul/wittgensteinian-philosophy-of-religion-as-a-kind-of-apophatic-theology
%X 
	In my article I present a conceptual model of classification of philosophical and theological conceptions of religion within Western philosophy and the Christian religious tradition. The model has four independent dimensions: the factual, the metaphysical, the ethical and the apophatic. The first and the second dimensions are cognitive, while the third and the fourth are non-cognitive. The fourth dimension should not be identified with the old tradition of apophatic theology because, according to the model, the latter is a mixture of two (or even more) dimensions. The second part of my paper is devoted to the Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion developed by the members of the so-called Swansea School. My thesis is that, despite of their self-characterisation as philosophers, they present an extreme version of apophatic theology because their view on religion is, in the light of my conceptual model, one-dimensional.