SOSC 1009 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Antony Flew, Natural Evil, Frugality
15 Apr 2014
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The purpose of religious language is to describe god; however, there have been religious languages in which difficulties have been raised. There are 4 theories of religious languages which will be explained below. Firstly, anthropomorphism is a language which is taken literally, basically what we mean about god"s attributes is the same as what we mean about our self. It is univocal (one voice) meaning the language has one meaning and it"s the same when applied to god and human beings. However, this language fails because it lacks in the perfection of god; hence one cannot have both perfection of. It also introduces the complimentary class meaning when you include something in one category it automatically excludes it from another. For example:-one cannot include god from the things that are good and exclude god from the things that are not good. Moreover, there is mental anthropomorphism which is an idea that god has a mind.
