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A fundamental question for theology is the question how we are to understand the claims that we make about God. The only language we can understand is the language we use to talk about human beings and their environment. How can we use that language to talk about God while respecting the infinite difference between God and humanity? The traditional answer has been to appeal to the concept of analogy. However, that appeal has been interpreted in widely different ways. This book aims to clarify the question and this answer by an analysis of the concept. It begins with an exploration of the way the concept was evolved by Aristotle out of Greek mathematics as a technique for comparing "things that were remote"; followed by a critical examination of three very different classical accounts of the way religious language works: those of Thomas Aquinas, Immanuel Kant and Karl Barth. The book finally investigates the way in which analogy could be applied to answer the question initially posed - how is it possible to use human language to talk about God. This is a question of fundamental significance for the whole of religion and theology, concerning as it does our whole understanding of what we mean when we talk about God.

Religious studies --- Analogy (Religion) --- Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) --- Philosophical theology. --- God (Christianity) --- Analogie (Religion) --- Théorie de la connaissance (Religion) --- Théologie philosophique --- Dieu (Christianisme) --- 291.1 --- 21*015 --- God --- -Metaphysics --- Misotheism --- Monotheism --- Religion --- Theism --- Theology, Philosophical --- Philosophy and religion --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Religious knowledge, Theory of --- Godsdienstfilosofie --- Theologie en taal --- Christianity. --- Philosophy --- -Godsdienstfilosofie --- 21*015 Theologie en taal --- 291.1 Godsdienstfilosofie --- -Theology, Philosophical --- Théorie de la connaissance (Religion) --- Théologie philosophique --- Epistemology, Religious --- Religious epistemology --- Philosophical theology --- Metaphysics --- Christianity --- Trinity

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig,

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"What can the actions of stockbreeders, as they select the best individuals for breeding, teach us about how new species of wild animals and plants come into being? Charles Darwin raised this question in his famous, even notorious, Origin of Species (1859). Darwin's answer - his argument by analogy from artificial to natural selection - is the subject of our book. We aim to clarify what kind of argument it is, how it works, and why Darwin gave it such prominence. As we explain more fully in our Introduction, we believe that the argument becomes much more intelligible when set, contextually, in a story stretching from classical Greek mathematics to modern evolutionary genetics: a long story, and a broad one too, encompassing everything from Darwin's earliest notebook theorising on the births and deaths of species, to agrarian capitalism as a distinctive form of economic life, to shifting Western reflections on art-nature relations"--

Breeding. --- Natural selection. --- Darwin, Charles, --- Critism, interpretation, etc.