Religious Language - A Reading List

Carson, D.A. The Inclusive Language Debate: A Plea for Realism. Grand Rapids: InterVarsity Press, 1998.

Chopp, Rebecca S. The Power to Speak: Feminism, Language, God. New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1989.

Cornwell, Hilarie, and Cornwell, James. Saints Signs, and Symbols: The Symbolic Language of Christian Art. Harrisburg: Morehouse Publishing, 2009.

Heather, Noel. Religious Language and Critical Discourse Analysis: Ideology and Identity in Christian Discourse Today. Oxford: Peter Lang Publishers, 2000.

Green, Garrett. Imagining God: Theology and the Religious Imagination. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1989.

Johnson, Elizabeth. She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse. New York: Crossroad, 1992.

Lindbeck, George A. The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1984.

Long, D. Stephen. Speaking of God: Theology, Language and Truth. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing 

Co., 2009.

MacQuarrie, John. God Talk: An Examination of the Language and Logic of Theology. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

McFague, Sallie. Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982.

Ramsey, Ian. Christian Discourse: Some Logical Explorations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Ramsey, Ian. Religious Language. London: SCM-Canterbury Press, Ltd., 1967.

Scott, Alex. Christian Semiotics and the Language of Faith. New York: iUniverse, 2007.

Soskice, Janet Martin. Metaphor and Religious Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Stiver, Dan R. The Philosophy of Religious Language: Sign, Symbol, and Story. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996.

Vanhoozer, Kevin J. Is There a Meaning in this Text? The Bible, The Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge. Grand Rapids, Zondervan, 1998.

Ware, Jr., James H. Not With Words of Wisdom: Performative Language and Liturgy. Washington, D.C., University Press of America, 1981.