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Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures
The Same God?
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2020
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In Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures: The Same God?, D. E. Buckner argues that all reference is story-relative. We cannot tell which historical individual a person is talking or writing about or addressing in prayer without familiarity with the narrative (oral or written) which introduces that individual to us, so we cannot understand reference to God, nor to his prophets, nor to any other character mentioned in the Jewish, Christian, or Muslim scriptures, without reference to those very scriptures. In this context we must understand God as the person who “walked in the garden in the cool of the day” (Gen. 3:8), and who is continuously referred to in the books of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, as well as the Quran. Further developing ideas presented by the late Fred Sommers in his seminal The Logic of Natural Language, Buckner argues that singular reference and singular conception is empty outside such a context.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-8741-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-8742-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
228
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1 Reference Statements No access Pages 1 - 18
Chapter 2 Rules for Reference No access Pages 19 - 38
Chapter 3 Story-Relative Reference No access Pages 39 - 58
Chapter 4 Mentioning No access Pages 59 - 76
Chapter 5 Identification within History No access Pages 77 - 96
Chapter 6 Reference and Identity No access Pages 97 - 116
Chapter 7 Existence No access Pages 117 - 130
Chapter 8 The God of the Philosophers No access Pages 131 - 148
Chapter 9 Identification in the Present No access Pages 149 - 170
Chapter 10 Revelation No access Pages 171 - 192
Chapter 11 Intentionality No access Pages 193 - 206
