Religious Language
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- Created on: 08-04-18 15:54
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- Religious Language
- Types
- Cognitive
- Cognitive language makes factual assertions that can be proved true/ false, or are treated as if they can be proved true or false — e.g., God exists, God loves us.
- Non-cognitive
- Non-cognitive language makes claims/observations that are to be interpreted in some other way e.g. as symbols
- Cognitive
- Challenges
- Verification
- 1920's Vienna Circle
- Only accept analytic and synthetic language
- RL propositions cannot be verified through senses/scientific experiment= meaningless
- Doens't have to be true to have meaning
- Ayer- strong and weak verification
- Falsification
- Anthony Flew- 1950s
- Karl Popper
- Meaningfulness of a statement lies in its method of falsification
- RL meaningless bc cannot be falsified
- The Parable of the Gardener
- Anthony Flew- 1950s
- Verification
- Responses to challenges
- Hick's eschatological verification
- Christian POV
- RL is cognitive (meaningful)
- Parable of Celestial City
- Hare's Bliks
- response to FP
- RL is non-cog but still meaningful
- RL is not falsifiable bc we all have bliks
- Parable of the Lunatic
- Wittgenstein's language games
- RL is non-cog but it's still meaningful
- cricket game- 'bowling a maiden over'
- Hick's eschatological verification
- Views of RL
- Analogical- Aquinas
- Analogy of proportionality - the view that all good qualities belong infinitely to God and, in proportion, to humans too.
- Analogy of attribution - the view that God is the cause of all good things in humans is God.
- Everyday language to talk about G is inadequate
- Aquinas rejects the use of univocal and eqivocal language to talk about God
- Analogy can be used to describe God because he is revealed through Creation meaning there is some point of comparison between God and the world.
- Via Negativa
- St John + St Augustine
- Instead of saying what G is we should say what G is not
- Language used to describe G is inadequate bc he is ineffable and indescribable
- St John + St Augustine
- Symbolic- Tillich
- a symbol "opens up levels of reality which are otherwise hidden and cannot be grasped any other way"
- Meaningful bc through metaphors+symbols we're helped to understand G
- Through RL we can communicate religious ideas
- Can only talk about G through symbolism
- RL is more like poetry
- Analogical- Aquinas
- Types
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