Episode 44, Analogy, Univocity, and Referring to God with Olli-Pekka Vainio
The Reluctant Theologian Podcast
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Analogical Language, Univical Language and E Equivocal Language
The treefold distinction originates from a summa theologia of saint thomas aquinas. It has longer roots, obviously, buta certain passages in aquinas are the rout for the modern on. So if i take those in a reverse order, a equivocal means betli diversity of meaning or ambiguity of meaning. In theologyyo, say that they designeris to a house as god is to the universeb,. That would be analogy. Ra, analogy means both difference and sameness.
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