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Flashcards by Emily Cons, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Emily Cons
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| Question | Answer |
| What is an Analogy? | A Comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. |
| Who came up with the idea of Analogy? | Thomas Aquinas |
| What did Aquinas reject? | Via Negativa |
| What were his two analogys? | Analogy of Attribution Analogy of Proportion |
| What is the analogy of attribution? | Human goodness is a pale reflection of God's goodness. By understanding humans and the attributes human have, it helps us understand the attributes of God. |
| What is the analogy of proportion? | God qualities belong infinitely to God and that is in proportion to humans. We have a proportion of God's goodness. |
| What does Hick call Analogies? | The downwards analogy- to help us understand God. |
| Who thought up models and qualifiers? | Ian Ramsey |
| What is a model? | The describing word of God using words that we understand for humans because we can liken it to human understanding. |
| What is a qualifier? | It makes the words used specific to God, so we can then think about God in a more meaningful way. |
| Strengths of Analogy? | -Challenges the verification principle by explaining the complexity of religious language. - It helps to explain difficult concepts. - Avoids anthropomorphising God. -Avoids agnosticism (not being sure) so allows for belief in God. -C.Steven Evans said that theres nothing wrong with excepting that God is mysterious, and that our knowledge is limited of him. |
| What are some weaknesses of analogy? | -Hume- analogies doesn't give us any information, or doesn't tell us anything about God. -William Blackstone said that it is unhelpful because we have to translate the analogies into univocal language before they mean anything. -Swinburne argues that we don't really need analogy because when we say God and humans are good, we might be using good to apply to different things but were using it to mean the same thing. |
| What is univocal language? | Language that only has one meaning, for example. Black shoes, black cat, black hair. |
| What is equivocal language? | Language that has a variety of different meanings for example a cricket bat, and the animal a bat. |
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