Sentences with phrase «analogical discourse»

From this it follows that there may well be no such thing as analogical discourse.

Clearly, all of this language about God must be understood as analogical discourse.

But even if we allowed the possibility of analogical discourse, could we attribute even the vaguest meaning to these terms when they are applied to infinite, necessary, simple Being?

Not exact matches

If this confuses us, we should recall that the strict rules of creaturely logic will at times tend to break down somewhat in the analogical realms of theological discourse.

Throughout the history of the church, risky anthropomorphisms in Christian discourse were excused by appeal to the accommodated, analogical, symbolic or poetic form of the scriptural revelation.

If we do not see the analogical bond between the other forms of religious discourse and prophetic discourse we generalize in univocal fashion the concept of inspiration derived from the prophetic genre and assume that God spoke to the redactors of the sacred books just as he spoke to the prophets.

By reconciling imagination and reason, separated since the famous Discourse on Method of Descartes, Varela and Simon refresh the analogical thinking so precious to Leonardo da Vinci who says to us: «As the bolt rises which we screw in the nut, also will go up the helix which we screw in the air» The practice of the debate proposes a scenography of alive metaphors in a space of artificial intelligence.