1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782813203321

Autore

Portner Paul

Titolo

Modality [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Portner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-383-04390-6

1-282-05322-1

9786612053221

0-19-155896-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Oxford linguistics

Oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics

Classificazione

08.33

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Modality (Linguistics)

Modality (Logic)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-283) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; General Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Modal Logic; 3 Major Linguistic Theories of Modality; 4 Sentential Modality; 5 Modality and Other Intensional Categories; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This comprehensive review and critical synthesis of research on modality focuses on formal theories within linguistics and related aspects of philosophical logic. It will be welcomed by students of linguistics at graduate level and above, as well as by researchers in philosophy, computational science, and related fields. - ;This is a book about semantic theories of modality. Its main goal is to explain and evaluate important contemporary theories within linguistics and to discuss a wide range of linguistic phenomena from the perspective of these theories. The introduction describes the variety



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961315103321

Autore

Greene-McCreight Kathryn <1961->

Titolo

Feminist reconstructions of Christian doctrine : narrative analysis and appraisal / / Kathryn Greene-McCreight

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-773914-8

1-280-83119-7

0-19-535172-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

230/.082

Soggetti

Feminist theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Feminist Theology and Biblical Narrative; 1 Narrative Interpretation and the Bible; 2 Feminist Hermeneutics, the Bible, and Patriarchy: Governing Doctrines; 3 Governing Doctrines, Extra-Narratival Claims, and Authentic Doctrine: Sin and Victimization; 4 Feminist Christologies; 5 Feminist Christology and Historical Reconstructions; 6 Feminist Trinitarian Reconstructions; Conclusion: Changing of the Gods?; Notes; Scripture Index; General Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study analyzes and evaluates the relationship between feminist "reconstructions" and traditional Christian teaching. The author discusses the extent to which the biblical depiction of God is allowed to guide theological hermeneutics as a test of orthodoxy.