Contents
Chapter 26: Many Mini-redemptions Chapter 27: Counterfeit Stories of Redemption Chapter 28: Modern Reinterpretations of Redemptive Stories Chapter 29: Stories about Jesus
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Part 5: Smaller Packages in Language: Sentences and Words Chapter 30: Sentences in Use: Foundations in Truth Chapter 31: Foundations for Meaning in Trinitarian Inter-personal Action Chapter 32: Subsystems of Language Chapter 33: Words and Their Meanings Chapter 34: From Words to Perspectives
243 251 259 270 280
Part 6: Application Chapter 35: Truth as a Perspective Chapter 36: Living in the Truth
289 297
Interaction with Other Approaches to Language Appendix A: Modernism and Postmodernism Appendix B: Doubt within Postmodernism Appendix C: Non-Christian Thinking Appendix D: Platonic Ideas Appendix E: The Contribution of Structural Linguistics Appendix F: Translation Theory Appendix G: Symbolic Logic and Logical Positivism Appendix H: The Theory of Speech Acts Appendix I: Reaching Out to Deconstruction
303 311 320 326 332 338 350 353 370
Supplementary Reflections Appendix J: Special Cases of Human Speech
385
Bibliography General Index Scripture Index
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