TY - JOUR
TI - Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Religion as A Kind of Apophatic Theology
AU - Gomułka, Jakub
TI - Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Religion as A Kind of Apophatic Theology
AB - 
	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.
VL - 2012
IS - Volume 45, Issue 3
PY - 2013
SN - 0137-2432
C1 - 2084-4077
SP - 165
EP - 172
DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.12.013.0966
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/wittgensteinian-philosophy-of-religion-as-a-kind-of-apophatic-theology
KW - apophatic theology
KW - Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion
KW - Swansea School
KW - Rush Rhees
KW - Peter G. Winch
KW - Dewi Z. Phillips