Effing the Ineffable

<p><b>A meditation on how religious language tries to limn the liminal conceive the inconceivable speak the unspeakable and say the unsayable.</b></p><p>In <i>Effing the Ineffable</i> Wesley J. Wildman confronts the human obsession with ultimate reality and our desire to conceive and speak of this reality through religious language despite the seeming impossibility of doing so. Each chapter is a meditative essay on an aspect of life that for most people is fraught with special spiritual significance: dreaming suffering creating slipping balancing eclipsing loneliness intensity and bliss. These moments can inspire religious questioning and commitment and in extreme situations drive us in search of ways to express what matters most to us. Drawing upon American pragmatist Anglo-American analytic and Continental traditions of philosophical theology Wildman shows how through direct description religious symbolism and phenomenological experience the language games of religion become a means to attempt and in some sense to accomplish this task.</p>