Words mean the same thing even when applied in different contexts.
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What does equivocal language mean?
Words mean completely different things in different contexts.
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Via Negativa sees language applied to God as...
Equivocal
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Who argued that God is ‘beyond assertion’ and ‘beyond denial’?
Pseudo-Dionysius
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Who wrote The Guide for the Perplexed?
Maimonides
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Complete the quote: ‘He is beyond assertion since he is the perfect unique cause of all things. He is beyond denial by virtue of his pre-eminently simple and absolute nature, free of every __________, beyond every ___________’.
Limitation
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Maimonides said you could make ten negative statements about what and still have a sense of what the object is?
Ship
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Via Negativa sees language applied to God as...
Analogous
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Who said: ‘In regard to what they express, these words apply literally to God…But as regards to their manner of expressing it, they don’t apply literally to God; for their manner of expression is appropriate only to creatures’
Aquinas
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What two types of analogy did Aquinas outline?
Attribution and Proportion
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What is meant by Aquinas' analogy of attribution?
Our qualities such as love and wisdom stem from God, so we can use the terms to apply to God also.
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What example did Aquinas use to explain the analogy of attribution?
Bull and Urine
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What is meant by Aquinas' analogy of proportion?
When using finite human language to refer to God, he is an infinite being, we need to understand that the proportion is different.
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What analogy did Hick use to explain the analogy of proportion?
The faithfulness of humans and the faithfulness of dogs
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Ramsey developed his own idea of language using which two concepts?
Models and Qualifiers
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Who argued religious language was symbolic?
Tillich
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How does Tillich refer to God?
The Ground of Being
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Tillich claimed symbols come from the collective unconscious, which psychologist developed this idea?
Carl Jung
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Complete the quote from Tillich: 'A symbol...
participates in what it points to’
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What does equivocal language mean?
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Words mean completely different things in different contexts.
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Via Negativa sees language applied to God as...
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Who argued that God is ‘beyond assertion’ and ‘beyond denial’?
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