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WorksheetsReligious language
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which scholars believed that religious language is cognitive? (expresses truth/falsity)
Aquinas
Randall
Maimonides
Tillich
Which are types of analogy to describe God put forward by Aquinas?
Analogy of metaphysics
Analogy of proportion
Analogy of attribution
Analogy of metaphors
Which are examples of via positiva (cataphatic approach)?
Analogy
Verification
Symbol
The apophatic way
Why does Hume reject the use of analogy to talk about God?
God is beyond words and description
There is undeniable proof that God does not exist
The difference between God and the world is too vast
We would be guilty of anthropomorphism
According to Aquinas analogy sits between ...
Masculine and feminine language
The apophatic and the cataphatic
Univocal and equivocal language
Positive and negative language
Who else put forward ideas about analogy including the qualified model and disclosure situation?
Aristotle
Paul Tillich
Ian Ramsey
A.J. Ayer
Who argued that analogy gives the appearance of saying something about God but is in reality no clearer than via negativa?
Vincent Brummer
David Hume
Paul Tillich
Richard Swinburne
Who compared the faithfulness of dogs and humans to demonstrate the analogy of proportion?
Richard Swinburne
Frederick Ferre
John Hick
Richard Dawkins
Which are benefits of speaking analogically about God?
It is similar to how Jesus taught (through parables)
It prevents us from anthropomorphising God
It helps us to use language rather than avoid it altogether
Analogies are always understood in the same way by all people
Which are problems with speaking analogically about God?
Analogies may mean different things to different people
We might just be making assumptions about God
It does not avoid the problems with univocal and equivocal language
It is not accessible to ordinary people who are not expert theologians
