Religious Language - Symbolic Flashcards
Symbolic - Intro
The philo problem in rel lang stands as foundation……..
Key approach to issue- symbol
central to S approach- we cannot speak literally of G as he is not❌❌part of the empirical world thus cannot be rep by literal lang🌸🌵🌇🏞🌁🏙
it is through METAPHORS + SYMBOLS that we are helped towards understanding of G🤝🙏🏻🤲🏻🙌🏻
Symbol - P1
Many arg T’s app = indeed satisfactory 😋
-as provides theists w valuable tool🔧⚒🔩⚙️which allows us to express POWERFUL MEANINGS about GrOB that words cannot seem to grasp✊🏻
-P.Till —- theo concepts so difficult to put into words we NEED symbols (in Dy of F)
GrOB obly statement can be used, source of everything!
⭐️those in favour, are useful, comm spiritual truths🌪which deal w issues beyonD fact
📍YET POINT IS: issues reg G can never be fully comm/understood by human minds😶
VN advantageous– denies poss of reducing G to physical level, uphold transcendence 🎇🎇🎇
CC: does preserve?? BUT CR: could anthro G through human symbols👁💋👄👽 (cataphatic descs always be conditioned by human exp)
Symbol - P2
COMMONLY PERC STRENGTH= idea that symbols (to some extent) matter of interp😹😿😸
just as piece of 🎼move me diff to friend, so too symb lang enables us to access G in own way
👯👯ENABLES PARTICIPATION IN REL BELIEFS IN WAY VN DOESN’T!!-prevents believers from personal and active🚴🏻♀️ understanding of G
HOWEVER: not clear advantage
S may mean something to one but not other
atheist+believer “God all knowing” agree BUT view diff…
MOREOVER.. although change over time seen as 😄✔️as 📩 stays relevant to changing cult context……….
fact change w time + cult dep means ideas of G change w time- MISINTERP!
Symbol - P3
NONETHELESS despite poss strengths
contend- VN more satisfactory way to speak of G💬💬
-nature unknown to finite human minds
-thus speak neg terms only, avoid meaningless+disrespectful defs of being that is…..
ULT INEFFIBLE!!!!!🔕🔕
