Aquinas and Analogical Language to describe God
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- Created on: 06-02-19 17:30
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- Aquinas and Analogical language to describe God
- Univocal Lang.
- Words meaning the same thing in different situations
- ie- Black bird, Black car, Black board
- Words meaning the same thing in different situations
- Equivocal
- Words are used to mean different things in different situations
- ie-Gay can mean happy or homosexuality
- Words are used to mean different things in different situations
- Analogical language
- Aquinas used this as an alternative to Equivocal/Univocal lang.
- Didn't agree w/ E+U language
- Analogy of Attribution
- Possible to work out God's nature by examining his creation (the world)
- God is the source of all things in the universe
- God is the source of all qualities he possess them in their perfection
- Example of the Bull- it's possible to determine an animals health by looking at their urine, therefore if a bull's urine is healthy the bull will be healthy
- Analogy of Proportion
- Hick- the term faithful can be used when applied to a dog to his owner or a married couple, but they haven't got the same meaning
- Trying to explain that we possess the same qualities as God (Wisdom, goodness,etc) as we are created in his likeness
- Strengths and Weaknesses
- The qualities it picks are only good, the world possess evil, does that mean God possess them too?
- It isn't a new way of looking at God
- The bridge being built between unknown and known is built by imaginary blocks
- Univocal Lang.
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