Sentences with phrase «merely analogical»

For Balthasar, Mary's relation to the Church is not merely analogical or archetypal but ontological; in Mary the Church is embodied even before being organised in Peter:

Not exact matches

I submit that arguments of this kind can have the force that Hartshorne takes them to have only if the whole of our knowledge of God, beyond our unavoidable experience of «the inclusive something,» can be derived from such knowledge as we have of ourselves, and hence is merely symbolic rather than truly analogical.

But if any knowledge of God mediated by psychical concepts would leave open the possibility of its being merely symbolic instead of truly analogical, what could rule out this possibility?

Clearly, it is one question whether certain psychical terms can be coherently established as theological analogies rather than frankly accepted as only symbols, while it is another and far more serious question whether any such terms at all can be coherently classified as truly analogical rather than merely symbolic.

You seem to «privilege» your sense of rationality and logic — and cast the irrational and illogical (probably not analogical because you may incorporate analogy into your sense of «logic» but it's illogical, descriptively) I actually see my rationality and logic (such as it is — hardly syllogistic) as always in the service of my attitude, outlook, frame of mind — which is to say, my illogical and irrational belief & bias system — and my unconscious, of which my consciousness is merely tip - of - the - I's berg, or as some linguists said: a snowball on the tip of the iceberg.

The connection between Whitehead's concrescence and Bergson's «effort» of inventing is not merely faintly analogical.