ABSTRACT
The absence of allusions to Ludwig Wittgenstein might suggest that it has had no impact on theologians at all, so that the problem would be to account for the non-reception, rather than the reception, of his philosophy on theology. The impact of Wittgenstein's later philosophy on the philosophy of religion, not least through D. Z. Phillips's own work, has focused attention on central philosophical issues and given rise to an immense literature. Theology, Reformed and Catholic, has been dominated throughout the twentieth century by theologians who pay little attention to English-speaking theology let alone analytic philosophy. It is no surprise to find their work untouched by Wittgenstein's. The absence of allusions to Wittgenstein might suggest that it has had no impact on theologians at all, so that the problem would be to account for the non-reception, rather than the reception, of his philosophy on theology.
