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Religious Language
In Charles Taliaferro & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion. Cambridge, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 348–356 (1997)
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religious language inadequacy of human speech to speak of God ‐ concomitant of Judaism's radical monotheism, that God is too holy even to be named strategies of reverent agnosticism ‐ early theologians, as corrective against human presumption in speaking about that which cannot be named modern English debate on religious language ‐ beginning with David Hume philosophy in the twentieth century, preoccupied with questions of language work of inestimable influence in twentieth century ‐ the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein Ricoeur, interested in role of myth, symbolism, and interpretation arsenal of post‐Christian feminists ‐ argument about religious language, of Christian scripture ineradicably male‐biased examples from “postmodern” philosophy ‐ differences of emphasis, sharing with analytic philosophy resurgence of interest in negative theology ‐ work of Aquinas and Maimonides, pertinent to religious language
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