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If God is transcendent, how can human beings speak meaningfully about him? The answer lies in analogy, which recognizes both similarity and dissimilarity between God and our God-talk. In his erudite study, Archie Spencer argues for a christological account of analogy as the answer to the problem of God's speakability.
Analysis (Philosophy) --- Analogy (Religion) --- Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) --- God (Christianity) --- Jesus Christ --- Person and offices.
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Anthropomorphism – the projection of the human form onto the every aspect of the world – closely relates to early modern notions of analogy and microcosm. What had been construed in Antiquity as a ready metaphor for the order of creation was reworked into a complex system relating the human body to the body of the world. Numerous books and images - cosmological diagrams, illustrated treatises of botany and zoology, maps, alphabets, collections of ornaments, architectural essays – are entirely constructed on the anthropomorphic analogy. Exploring the complexities inherent in such work, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume address how the anthropomorphic model is fraught with contradictions and tensions, between magical and rational, speculative and practical thought. Contributors include Pamela Brekka, Anne-Laure van Bruaene, Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, Christopher P. Heuer, Sarah Kyle, Walter S. Melion, Christina Normore, Elizabeth Petcu, Bertrand Prevost, Bret Rothstein, Paul Smith, Miya Tokumitsu, Michel Weemans, and Elke Werner.
Anthropomorphism. --- Analogy. --- Analogy (Religion) --- Anthropomorphism in literature. --- Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Reasoning --- Symbolism --- God --- Corporeality
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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.
Religious studies --- Analogy (Religion) --- Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) --- Philosophical theology. --- God (Christianity) --- Analogie (Religion) --- Théorie de la connaissance (Religion) --- Théologie philosophique --- Dieu (Christianisme) --- 291.1 --- 21*015 --- God --- -Metaphysics --- Misotheism --- Monotheism --- Religion --- Theism --- Theology, Philosophical --- Philosophy and religion --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Religious knowledge, Theory of --- Godsdienstfilosofie --- Theologie en taal --- Christianity. --- Philosophy --- -Godsdienstfilosofie --- 21*015 Theologie en taal --- 291.1 Godsdienstfilosofie --- -Theology, Philosophical --- Théorie de la connaissance (Religion) --- Théologie philosophique --- Epistemology, Religious --- Religious epistemology --- Philosophical theology --- Metaphysics --- Christianity --- Trinity
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Analogy (Religion) --- Analogy --- Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Reasoning --- History of doctrines --- History. --- Cajetan, Tommaso de Vio, --- Thomas, --- Akʻvineli, Tʻoma, --- Akvinietis, Tomas, --- Akvinskiĭ, Foma, --- Aquinas, --- Aquinas, Thomas, --- Foma, --- Thomas Aquinas, --- Tʻoma, --- Toma, --- Tomas, --- Tomasu, --- Tomasu, Akwinasu, --- Tomasz, --- Tommaso, --- Tʻovma, --- Тома, Аквінський, --- תומאס, --- תומס, --- اكويني ، توما --- Cajetan, --- Cajetanus, --- Caetano, --- Vio, Tommaso de, --- Cajetan, Thomas de Vio-, --- Vio-Cajetan, Thomas de, --- Vio, Thomas de, --- Gaetano, --- Caietanus, Thomas de Vio, --- Contributions in doctrine of analogy. --- History --- Ākvīnās, Tūmās, --- اكويني، توما, --- آکويناس، توماس,
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