Religious Language

Question 1

what two questions does this topic ask?

Answer 1

Can we talk about God?

Can we know God?

Question 2

Apophatic

Answer 2

we can only talk about God negatively (what God is not)

Question 3

Kataphic

Answer 3

we can talk about God positively

Question 4

univocal language

Answer 4

same word, same meaning

Question 5

equivocal language

Answer 5

same word, different meaning

Question 6

analogical language

Answer 6

same word, similar but different meanings

Question 7

what type of language does Aristotle think we us to talk about God?

Answer 7

Analogical language because the language we use to describe God and for example, humans may be the same word but it has different meanings if we were to use it for God.

Question 8

Aquinas analogy of attributes

Answer 8

one is the cause of the other
eg) healthy veg and healthy humans

Question 9

aquinas analogy of proportion

Answer 9

one is more than the other
eg) intelligent dog and intelligent chessmaster (human)

Question 10

Aquinas argument; analogy of attributes

Answer 10

who? Like causes like effects, five ways (observation, teleological, etc.) and reason
what? Aquinas believed that we can talk about God in a Kataphatic sense. We do this neither with univocal nor equivocal language but with analogical language shown through the analogy of attributes.
why? his argument follows;
1.