Via positiva
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- Anology- Via Positiva
- Analogy of Attribution
- Brain Davies
- only saying what someone is not gives no indication of what they actually are
- Miamondies method of arriving at the 'right answer' is unlikely to lead people in the right direction at all
- only saying what someone is not gives no indication of what they actually are
- Aquinas says that we cannot say anything literally true about God.
- This is because the use of ordinary human language cannot capture the divinity and so limits him.
- By looking at a bull's urine, an expert can tell wealthy the bull is healthy; whilst it does not follow that the bull is like a puddle of urine, but the conclusion of health is justifiable.
- we can make positive claims about God, as long as understand that words have analogical value not literal value .
- This is because the use of ordinary human language cannot capture the divinity and so limits him.
- This is because the use of ordinary human language cannot capture the divinity and so limits him.
- By looking at a bull's urine, an expert can tell wealthy the bull is healthy; whilst it does not follow that the bull is like a puddle of urine, but the conclusion of health is justifiable.
- Brain Davies
- Analogy of Proportion
- John Hick states that both a man and a dog can described as faithful. This is analogical.
- The words relate to objects that are different in proportion
- Models and Qualifiers
- Ian Ramsay
- Models are words that we use to describe God such as righteous but we recognize that his abilities are unlike ours.
- Qualifiers are ways in which we anchor our ideas about God within our own experience and then show that God is different to us.
- Ian Ramsay
- Univocal Language
- Richard Swinburne
- suggests that sometimes words can be used univocally to talk about God
- for example if God is good, this can be interpreted to mean God is just as good as humans, but to a greater degree
- the theory is unnecessary
- it is still the same essential quality, just in different ways
- the theory is unnecessary
- for example if God is good, this can be interpreted to mean God is just as good as humans, but to a greater degree
- suggests that sometimes words can be used univocally to talk about God
- words that mean the same thing when udsed in different contexts.
- Richard Swinburne
- Weaknesses
- we can refute the proportion analogy as some choose to belief that humans weren't 'made in the image & likeness of God. This is challenged by Darwin's theory of evolution and rejected by atheist Richard Dawkins
- Not everyone has the same understanding of different words, so God would appear differently to the individual person.
- Strengths
- is the most natural way to speak about God
- does not allow for the chance to reject God. Positive imagery of God promotes a stronger sense of faith within religious community
- Analogy of Attribution
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