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On God-Talk proposes a groundbreaking account of theological language. Three claims are key to this work: First, that we can explain semantical notions like meaning, "aboutness," and truth on the basis of "pragmatics," that is, an account of the norms implicit in our social practices. Second, that we can understand theological semantics on the basis of pneumatological pragmatics, an account according to which Christ's normative Spirit is mediated through the practice of recognizing certain performances as "going on in the same way" as those recognized by Christ. And finally, Hector elaborates some of the potentially groundbreaking implications of this proposal: most accounts of theological language insinuate a dualistic "gap" between God and ordinary talk, and then either posit some tertium to bridge this "gap" or proclaim it unbridgeable. Either way, this sort of account makes it seem that God-talk's answerability to God is incompatible with its answerability to us.
This book, on the other hand, explains both God-talk and its answerability to God in terms of our answerability to one another, thereby rendering these "gaps" optional. If Hector is right, then instead of trying to solve the traditional problems of God-talk, they can be dissolved - and given the number of books that have attempted to solve these problems, that would be no small accomplishment.
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