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Religious Language 1 (Apophatic way, via negatia (Pseudo Dionysius…

- - - - Believed that symbols unlocked the dimensions and elements of our sould otherwise unreachable
      - religious language like poetry not prose
      - Signs are arbitrarily chosen ie a flag design , however they become a symbol when relative meaning is attached to them ie buring the US flag is a sign of rebellion
      - Jesus is a symbol for the relationship between the physicla and spiritual
      - Everyone uses symbolic langauge but they can lose meaning over cultures and times
      - Tillich followed Aquinas in the fact ordinary human language is inadiquet to describe God
      - God is symbolic
        
        God is the symbol of existance otherwise he answers no questions , if he was brough into existance then it only brings more qurestions
        
        God is not a being
        
        No place for the argument for the existance of God as he is the symbolof existance itelf
        
        Gos is Being-itself
        
        If God was a being we have issues with the idea of Omnipotence ect but he is not and cannot be described as such
        
        God is symbolic and therefore the answer to the ultimate existential question
- - - - avoids guessing and conveys the mystery of god
      - fails to help people understand God
    - - helps make a picture
      - Open possibility for differnt people to add
      - can lead to conflict
- - - - univocal, use a word the same way for different things ie doormat and bath mat
        
        Aquinas argued this limits God
      - equivocal- use the same word in different ways ie a cricket bat and a fruit bat
        
        Aquinas Argued this was no use as it didnt tell us anything
      - analogical- same word in a related sense but not exactly the same ie smooth wine and smooth floor , blanket of sniow or woolen blanket
        
        Middle path between uniocal and equivocal
        
        Types of Analogys
        
        Anaology of attribution with a casual relationship between the two ie a healtbhy dog has healthy teeth
        
        Analogy of proportion ie different depending on the subject ie a clever babay and a clever man
        
        reinforced by Hick in his idea of a faithful dog , a faithful man and a faithful God
      - denotation is literal and connotation is suggeted