Religious Language

In Charles Taliaferro, Paul Draper & Philip L. Quinn, A Companion to Philosophy of Religion. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 348–356 (2010)
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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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Becoming Divine: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion.Grace Jantzen - 1999 - Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press.
Religious language.William P. Alston - 2005 - In William J. Wainwright, The Oxford handbook of philosophy of religion. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 234--242.

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