Volume Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgement

List of Initials and Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter One: Wittgenstein's Religious Point of View

I. To take or not to take Wittgenstein's remark at face value

II. Mysticism as Wittgenstein's religious point of view

III. The merits of positing mysticism as Wittgenstein's religious point of view

Chapter Two: The Theology of the Early Wittgenstein

I. The mystical Wittgenstein

II. Wittgenstein's apophaticism

III. The Pseudo-Dionysian theology

IV. Wittgenstein's theology is Pseudo-Dionysian

Chapter Three: The Mature Wittgenstein on (Religious) L anguage

I. On language

II. On the limits of language

III. The trouble with speaking of the unspeakable

IV. On religious language

Chapter Four: The Mature Wittgenstein on Seeing and (not) Speaking of God

I. Speaking of the mind

II. Speaking of God

III. Some objections

IV. Wittgenstein à la St. Thomas Aquinas

V. Seeing God

Chapter Five: 'God exists' after Wittgenstein after St. Thomas Aquinas

I. 'God exists' after Wittgenstein

II. God exists as a grammatical hinge

III. St. Thomas Aquinas on 'God exists'

IV. Wittgenstein à la St. Thomas

Chapter Six: Wittgenstein on the (Supposed) Evidence for God's Existence

I. On miracles as evidence of the divine

II. On religious experience as evidence of the divine

III. The orderliness of the universe as evidence of the divine

IV. Faith creates the evidence that justifies faith

Chapter Seven: Wittgenstein's Religious Realism with Attitude

I. Cupitt's idealist Wittgenstein

II. From behaviourism to religious non-realism

III. Wittgenstein's anti-realism and his realist attitude

IV. Realism/non-realism and Wittgenstein's God

V. 'God' and 'colour'

VI. Apophatic theology and God-universe bi-conditionality

Chapter Eight: The Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Religion is misunderstood

I. The criticisms against the Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion

II. Two discursive traditions about God as (not) a being

III. Wittgenstein in line with the Plotinian tradition

IV. The criticisms are borne of nescience or obliviousness

Chapter Nine: Concluding remarks: The difference it makes in understanding Wittgenstein's religious point of view

I. Wittgenstein's religious point of view and other non-religious matters

II. Wittgenstein's religious point of view and the conduct of philosophy of religion

III. Concluding remarks on non-realism, crypto-atheism and fideism

Bibliography

Index