The Via Negativa
Religious Language
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- Created on: 18-01-18 22:38
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- THE VIA NEGATIVA
- Religious Language
- Equivocal
- Must be negated when applied to the Divine
- Relies solely on functional or evocative sense
- Doesn't lead to skepticism but realisation God is beyond words
- Equivocal
- Strengths
- A warning against the idolatry of language.
- The dangers of giving God human form and emotions.
- Negation has some value.
- Even accepted by Aquinas (Remotion).
- A warning against the idolatry of language.
- Weaknesses
- Riddled with contradicitons
- PS.-Dionysius and Maimonides make affirmations.
- Gregory of Nyssa provides affirmations of God beyond understanding
- It never says enough to make a difference
- If it is inadequate, why use it all?
- Aquinas rejects language is equivocal.
- Analogy allows us to know God.
- Riddled with contradicitons
- An Apophatic Approach
- Religious Language
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