religious language

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Analytic philosophy

  • Charles Sprague Pearce: Religion
    In study of religion: Empiricism and pragmatism

    …to exhibit the nature of religious language could have been a chiefly descriptive task, but, in fact, most analyses have occurred in the context of questions of truth. Thus, some scholars have been concerned with exhibiting how it is possible to hold religious beliefs in an empiricist framework, others with…

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theism

  • Raphael: School of Athens
    In theism: Theism and religious language

    Preoccupation with the forms in which religious life expresses itself has led some theistic writers to lean heavily on the contribution made to religious understanding today by studies of religious language. In some cases this concern has carried with it, as it generally…

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