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Talking about God - The Concept of Analogy and the Problem of Religious Language (Paperback, New Ed)
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Talking about God - The Concept of Analogy and the Problem of Religious Language (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology
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A fundamental question for theology is the question how we are to
understand the claims that we make about God. The only language we
can understand is the language we use to talk about human beings
and their environment. How can we use that language to talk about
God while respecting the infinite difference between God and
humanity? The traditional answer has been to appeal to the concept
of analogy. However, that appeal has been interpreted in widely
different ways. This book aims to clarify the question and this
answer by an analysis of the concept. It begins with an exploration
of the way the concept was evolved by Aristotle out of Greek
mathematics as a technique for comparing "things that were remote";
followed by a critical examination of three very different
classical accounts of the way religious language works: those of
Thomas Aquinas, Immanuel Kant and Karl Barth. The book finally
investigates the way in which analogy could be applied to answer
the question initially posed - how is it possible to use human
language to talk about God. This is a question of fundamental
significance for the whole of religion and theology, concerning as
it does our whole understanding of what we mean when we talk about
God.
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