Different ways religious language can be used

Question 1

Religious language can be used in the context of truth claims in other words

Answer 1

religious people use language to make statements about what is or is not the case

Question 2

whats the problem with truth claims?

Answer 2

’ Jesus is alive today’

believer is asserting that their religious beliefs are true and by implication the opposite is false

Question 3

religious language can also be used to express?

Answer 3

Feelings and emotions

Question 4

Religious language can also be used ………?

example ‘ i now pronounce you husband and wife’

Answer 4

performatively - without the words spoken at a wedding the bride and groom would not be married

Question 5

Religious language can also be used …..?

- encouraging other people to act in certain ways and not in others (the Ten Commandments)

Answer 5

Perscriptively

Question 6

religious language can also be …… or …….

Answer 6

Cognitive (realist)
or
Non-cognitive (anti-realist)

Question 7

cognitive deals with what?

Answer 7

Factual statements that can be proved to be either true or false

• these can be empirically provable
• or contain meaningful factual context (as far as the believers believe

Question 8

Non-cognitive deal with?

Answer 8

Statements that afe not to be taken factually, but understood in other ways - as symbols, metaphors myths, moral commands.

Question 9

what do non-cognitive statements express?

Answer 9

A religious truth within the religious community in which it belongs