4 - religious language Flashcards
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aquinas and analogy
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aquinas’ theory of analogical predication holds that, since god created the universe, there must be some link between human attributes or predicated (loving, powerful, knowledgeable etc) -> aquinas identified analogy of attribution and analogy of proportion
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analogy of attribution
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something of what is ‘good’ means in relation to the creator of human beings, god. simply, god has whatever it takes to produce human goodness
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analogy of proportion
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aquinas says ‘a human father loved in the way ad sense appropriate to human fathers and God loves in the way and sense appropriate to God’ - but if we dont already know what god is, how do we know what it means to say that god loves in an appropriate way to god?
