Religious Language
- univocal, equivocal, analogical
- univocal – a word meaning only one thing
equivocal – the same word used with a different meaning
analogical – the meaning is conveyed using comparative words / parallels - …
- a phrase which is imaginative or symbolic but not literal
- …
- a thing representing something like an idea or a quality
- because God is indefinable, infinite and ungraspable
- a thing indicating an occurrence or future state
- usually a story or poem which represents a message symbolically
- Adam and Eve, Noah and the rainbow, Jonah and the big fish
Soul / Life after death
- Rene Descartes
- I think therefore I am
- Dualism
- Socrates
- Socrates’ defence of the survival of the soul
- Theory of exact replicas
- The ephemeral spiritual body
- Richard Swinburne
- The Gnostics
- A transmittable unit of cultural inheritance
Existence of God
- Three out of: ritual, myth, doctrine, ethical, social, experiential
- ‘Exploring inner space’
- Ineffable
- William James 1901
- Rambo and Farhadian
- Total mystical consciousness
- Rudolph Otto
- Principles of credulity and testimony
- ‘What can be expected to turn out to be correct’
- ‘To do with being’