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Phil HL - Religious Language - Via Negativa
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Phil HL - Religious Language - Via Negativa
people should only talk about God in negative terms
This doesn't mean to criticize God or speak badly of Him
God is not evil
(because we can't comprehend the goodness of his good)
God is not human
(God is transcendent, therefore doesn't have a body)
God is only described in terms of what he is not.
Via Negativa is very influential in Christianity
religious experiences - used to describe the unexplainable events
Via Negativa emphasises the otherness & transcendence of God
Valued in the Eastern Orthodox Church
As the Apophatic way
Where did Via Negativa come from?
Psuedo-Dionysius
We don't know what it means to say God is Good
God is 'beyond assertion'
God is 'beyond denial'
Plotinus (2nd century CE)
Plato: the Form of the Good = highest form
Plotinus believed this form is linked with God
Maimonides (Jewish, 12th century)
humans can know God exists but nothing else about God (as he is not like humans)
'I am who I am'- in Jewish scriptures God is beyond description
Problems
Brian Davies
Describing something in terms of what it is not doesn't tell us what it actually is
religious people don't use Via Negativa
It fails to confirm any attributes we normally associate with God
Strengths
avoids anthropomorphic statements about God as these limit God
anthropomorphic: to assign human qualities
recognises that God is ineffable
ineffable: incapable of describing/expressing
Can give a profound sense of the transcendence
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