Philosophy

We have now produced study guides for each paper which build essay-writing (analytical and evaluative skills) step by step, and together…

6. Religious Language: Twentieth Century Perspectives Learners will study how views of religious language have changed over time, studying a variety…

Here is a list of possible exam questions for H573/1 section of the specification, using the guidance in the specification and…

Religious Language Religious Language as a topic has a number of subdivisions (see Roadmap) and ranges across a number of issues….

Religious Language This article by Dr Guy Williams explains with great clarity the issues surrounding religious language. For further articles go…

Andrew Capone discusses the issues surrounding religious language, such as the analogies of attribution and proper proportion. 5. Religious Language from…

A look at the role of Myth within religious language, and CS Lewis and Tolkien as imaginal theologians whose re-mythology helps…

Harris Westminster Sixth Form’s Tristan Stone explores Wittgenstein’s early and later work in this powerpoint which introduces the conflict between the…

Religious Language Religious Language from Peped In this powerpoint Dr Guy Williams  explores the issues surrounding Religious Language.

This model essay was handwritten in 45 minutes. Aquinas and Tillich are both correct in their observation that “we name God…

The following essay was handwritten in 45 minutes.  It is difficult to take Ayer’s claim seriously, since his verification principle fails…

source: Royal Latin School ‘God-talk is evidently nonsense’ – A.J. Ayer Paragraph A Basic Content / Argument Not only can God…

Critically compare the use of myth with the use of analogy to express the human understanding of God. [35] AO1 Jan 2011…

source  Parable of the Garden First told by John Wisdom and then adapted by Anthony Flew. Let us begin with a…

Jennifer Lopez And Falsification Here is an example of how falsification works from Philosophy of Religion by Jones, Cardinal and Hayward…

source RM Hare – The Parable of the Paranoid Lunatic A certain lunatic is convinced that all dons want to murder…

John Hick’s Parable of the Celestial City The parable points to the possibility of eschatological verification, whereby in the next life…

‘God-talk is evidently nonsense’ — AJ Ayer in Davies B (editor) — Philosophy of Religion: a guide and anthology (OUP, 2000)…

Symbols of Faith Paul Tillich from Dynamics of Faith (New York: Harper & Row, 1957) The Meaning Of Symbol Man’s ultimate concern…

What is Myth From Kerygma and Myth, Bultmann and Five Critics (SPCK 1953) The real purpose of myth is not to…

Augustine’s conversion ‘voice’ Augustine’s conversion illustrates well how religious people take everyday features of language and then change them according to…

source George Orwell explains Newspeak In this appendix to the novel 1984 Orwell explains the principles of the language called Newspeak….

source Giles Fraser, Guardian Many of us have a dim and distant memory of early childhood gaffes with words, of those occasions…

source Analogical Language Aquinas argues that the when terms are used to describe God and his attributes, those terms are used…

Click below to download an article by Charlotte Vardy on Religious experience. Article – Religious Language

source Now Boethius has decided that Philosophy’s arguments must be true, but he still questions, “What are we to make of…

Aquinas And Religious Language Source: Victor Shepherd All our language about God is necessarily creaturely and therefore limited. Then how can…

Theology And Falsification From the University Discussion Antony Flew Let us begin with a parable. It is a parable developed from…

source John Hick, a renowned British philosopher of religion began to be interested in the world religions and dialogue with their…

The Meaningfulness of Religious Language MS Bolden source One of the interesting aspects of Flew’s theory of falsification is that…

Tristan Stone explores how Tolkien’s essay on Fairy Stories and his notions of sub-creation and mythopoeia help solve some of the…

Webb Keane of the University of Michigan gives a thorough overview of the issues surrounding Religious Language.  The abstract reads: The…

Falsification Debate Source: a2philosophy.edublogs.org Popper’s Falsification Principle The point is that Carl Popper made the point that in science it’s not so…