Religious language 1 OCR Philosophy
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- Religious Language 1
- Types of language
- Equivocal
- Words that mean diff things when used in diff contexts
- Univocal
- Words that mean the same thing when used in diff contexts
- Equivocal
- Cataphatic Way
- via positiva
- say what god is
- Aquinas = opponent
- we cannot say anything positive that is true of god
- Via eminentiae - what we know of god is partial
- can only make positive claims thru analogies
- Apophatic Way
- via negativa
- talk about what god is not e.g. his love is incomprehensible
- Pseudo dionysius
- NO finite language
- our reason cannot understand
- Maimondes - anthropromorphise if we do
- NO finite language
- Analogy
- Aquinas
- analogy of attribution - causal relationship
- analogy of proportionality - words relate to objects diff in proportion
- swinburne - unneccessary theory we can use univocal lang
- Aquinas
- Symbolism
- Tillich
- using symbols is meaningful
- all rel lang is symbolic not literal
- using symbols is meaningful
- universal
- open to interpretation
- subjective
- ambiguous
- Tillich
- Types of language
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