Qualifier and disclosure (Ian Ramsey)

Religious Language

• Ramsey wanted to examine how we use language and how he felt it should be used
• Ramsey believed all experience is effectively a religious experience because all experience is a continual encounter between God and his creation

Religious language that grew out of religious situations became revelatory in the sense that those religious experiences were variously referred to as disclosures - moments were the human was able to grasp an understanding of the divine

• Not only the superficial moment itself was appreciated, but there was also a realisation that something else was going on - something that could not easily be described…