Religious Language 1 Key Words

Question 1

Univocal

Answer 1

A word is used in the same way in different contexts

Question 2

Equivocal

Answer 2

A word has a different meaning in a different context

Question 3

Cognitive

Answer 3

A statement that is subjects to being true or false

Question 4

Non-cognitive

Answer 4

A statement that is not subject to being true or false

Question 5

Tautology

Answer 5

A statement that is always true, it contains within it

Question 6

Cataphatic way

Answer 6

Uses positive language to describe the qualities and nature of God

Question 7

Apophatic way

Answer 7

The only legitimate way to talk about God is to say what he is not

Question 8

Analogy of attribution

Answer 8

A way of talking about God through attributing characteristics of the created to the creator

Question 9

Analogy of proportion

Answer 9

A way of talking about God by comparing limited human concepts with a proportionally much greater idea

Question 10

Sign

Answer 10

Points to something outside itself

Question 11

Symbol

Answer 11

Participated in that to which it points and conveys a depth of meaning often an emotional levell

Question 12

Anthropomorphism

Answer 12

Describing God in human-like terms, so bringing God down to the level of humans