jubalsqaud
Puritan Board Freshman
The three options for God talk: univocal, equivocal , analogical.
My understanding is univocal predicates about God are rejected in favor of the other options because it makes God like creation.
Likewise equivocal language is rejected for if we can only speak in equivocal terms without the ability to understand these terms God talk is rendered meaningless.
Thus everybody pretty asserts we speak of God analogically.
However this is confusing to me....
It seems like someone who affirms "all God talk is analogical" can't have ANY UNDERSTANDING of God.
Analogies hold because there are univocally expressible commonalties between two analogs.
So by definition there needs to be a commonality if analogies are at work.
A similar problem happens if you grant there is a mysterious commonality.
If you said "God loves you" and admitted that this is a analogical statement that contains univocal commonality but you didn't know what the commonality is then the problem below happens.
Unless you can personally explain the meaning of the analogy it doesn't seem that you have the ability to understand what your saying and thus not be able to understand God.
Does anyone have a solution to these problems?
My understanding is univocal predicates about God are rejected in favor of the other options because it makes God like creation.
Likewise equivocal language is rejected for if we can only speak in equivocal terms without the ability to understand these terms God talk is rendered meaningless.
Thus everybody pretty asserts we speak of God analogically.
However this is confusing to me....
It seems like someone who affirms "all God talk is analogical" can't have ANY UNDERSTANDING of God.
Analogies hold because there are univocally expressible commonalties between two analogs.
So by definition there needs to be a commonality if analogies are at work.
A similar problem happens if you grant there is a mysterious commonality.
If you said "God loves you" and admitted that this is a analogical statement that contains univocal commonality but you didn't know what the commonality is then the problem below happens.
Unless you can personally explain the meaning of the analogy it doesn't seem that you have the ability to understand what your saying and thus not be able to understand God.
Does anyone have a solution to these problems?