Religious language - Peter Donovan

Modern study of religions reminds us that they are not just a matter of words; yet words play a crucial role in their claims to truth. Dr Donovan has written a lucid introduction to the thinking that philosophers of religion have done in recent years about the way religions use language, what the claims made by religious believers mean, and how questions about the truth of those claims can best be considered. The challenge of natural, non-religious thinking to religion to show how its oblique, often obscure, claims can count as factual rather than fictional, forms the central issue.