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via positiva/cataphatic way (religious language: negative, analogical or…
via positiva/cataphatic way (religious language: negative, analogical or symbolic)
analogy
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A language contrasts with univocal language (words are used in exactly the same way) and equivocal language (where words have completely different meanings)
Aquinas
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thought that recognising that we are using analogy helps to avoid the problem of making God too small
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Ian Ramsey
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we can use other words such as 'infinitely' or 'holy' to indicate that the word is being applied analogically to an infinite being who will always remain beyond human comprehension
symbol
= a word or other kind of representation used to stand for something else and to shed light on its meaning
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Paul Tillich
'theology of correlation' showing the relation between the questions raised in philosophy, the arts, psychology and history with the answers offered by theology
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thought that understanding religion as symbolic helps us to understand god as the 'ground of all being'
using ideas from the limited, imperfect physical world to express ideas about God might make God seem too small
using positive terms to speak of God might wrongly suggest that human beings can come to an understanding of God
if we use analogy and symbol knowing that the terms we use are only a partial, smaller shadow of the greatness of God then we still do not come to a very clear understanding
analogies and symbols require interpretation and we do not always know if we are interpreting them correctly
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