Episode 44, Analogy, Univocity, and Referring to God with Olli-Pekka Vainio
The Reluctant Theologian Podcast
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Is It Really OK to Speak Univocally About God?
Critics fear that universal use of univocal language somehow captures god and makes him subject to our reasoning. But there doesn't seem to be any r anything idolatrous about making this claim, says the philosopher. Ra argues for oa partial university so you can apply univorcal language to some things or some aspects of god but he never claims that these claims somehow capture god, right? And g, yes. So let's look at one of the objections to univical language here. Sometimes theologians will tell me that if i'm speaking univically about god, which i really want to do, often they'll be like, ryan, you jus being really
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