
Talking about God : The Concept of Analogy and the Problem of Religious Language.
Başlık:
Talking about God : The Concept of Analogy and the Problem of Religious Language.
Yazar:
White, Roger M, Mr.
ISBN:
9781409403630
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (220 pages)
Seri:
Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology
İçerik:
Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Preamble: Analogy and Talking about God -- The Problem of Religious Language -- Analogy -- 1 The Mathematical Roots of the Concept of Analogy -- Incommensurable Magnitudes -- Euclid Book V, Definitions of Ratio and Analogy -- A Universal Theory of Magnitude -- Analogical Models -- 2 Aristotle: The Uses of Analogy -- Analogy in Biology -- Metaphors Based on Analogy -- Justice as Analogy -- Analogy in the State -- Argument by Analogy -- Analogy and Metaphysics -- Some Conclusions -- 3 Aristotle: Analogy and Language -- Analogy and Definition -- Analogy and Ambiguity -- Potentiality (Δύναμις) -- Final Comments, Metaphor and the Analogy of Names -- 4 Thomas Aquinas -- The "Analogy of Attribution" -- Some Developments in Aquinas' Thought on Analogy and Divine Names -- The Final Position (the Summa Theologiae) -- An Alternative Account: "Exemplarism" -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- 5 Immanuel Kant -- Kant's Philosophy of Religion -- Kant on Religious Language and Analogy -- Discussion -- The Implications of Kant's Account of Religious Language -- 6 Karl Barth -- Barth's Theological Project -- The Language used to Talk about God -- Discussion -- 7 Final Reflections -- Analogy of Proportionality or Analogy of Attribution? -- Analogical Models and Alternation -- Metaphor and Religious Language -- Anthropomorphism and Agnosticism -- Bibliography -- Index.
Özet:
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.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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