Language and Christian BeliefMacmillan, 1958 - 135 pages |
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... refer to an important field of study . But today the area of that field is not marked out with any pre- cision . That it has changed , and is still changing , is evident from a comparison of standard works on the subject written more ...
... refer to an important field of study . But today the area of that field is not marked out with any pre- cision . That it has changed , and is still changing , is evident from a comparison of standard works on the subject written more ...
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... refer to an event ; but then they feel unwilling about accepting scien- tific methods of verification until the evidence is over- whelming . And if ' science ' refers only to the natural world , the world of the five senses , then of ...
... refer to an event ; but then they feel unwilling about accepting scien- tific methods of verification until the evidence is over- whelming . And if ' science ' refers only to the natural world , the world of the five senses , then of ...
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... refer to human beings — ' I ' , ' you ' , ' we ' , ' man ' , ' person ' and so on — present no particular logical difficulties . They are used , like other nouns and pronouns , to refer to certain complex entities , the entities which ...
... refer to human beings — ' I ' , ' you ' , ' we ' , ' man ' , ' person ' and so on — present no particular logical difficulties . They are used , like other nouns and pronouns , to refer to certain complex entities , the entities which ...
Contents
SECTION A 1 VERIFICATION AND RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE I | 1 |
RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE | 16 |
SECTION B 3 AUTHORITY AND BELIEF | 32 |
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A. J. Ayer able accept acquaintance act freely actions actually analogy answer asser assess authority causes cerned characteristics choices Chris Christ Christian belief Church Churchill claim compulsion concept concerned count as evidence course criteria Defence Minister difficulties doctrine entail entity essential ethical evil exis existential exists fact faith falsifiable feel fiable freedom genuine gious God's Hibbert Journal important informative instance judgement kind kleptomania know Bloggs knowledge Last Judgement least meaning and verification ments moral natural world necessary omnipotent original sin ourselves perhaps perience person physical possible predict problem psychological punishment question rational Red Sea refer regard relevant reli religion religious assertions religious belief religious experience religious statements retribution Sacraments scientific seems sense experience simply sort soul squmps supernatural supposed sure symbols tence tests things Thirty-Nine Articles tian tion true truth trying verifiable wicket Winston Churchill words