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After all, when one infers nature was produced by an infinitely wise being for particular ends, one compares God to humans. The tension can be understood in terms of its implications for religious language: the god inferred through design arguments is one whose properties are univocal with creaturely properties. To render God more transcendent is to render the predicates applied to God and creatures ever more equivocal.

Towards the close of part III, Cleanthes presents a design argument, citing the intricate way in which each part of nature is fit for another, so that even the sexes were designed for each other Hume , Demea explains God forms an incomprehensible unity, so that God cannot be subdivided in terms of His properties divine Simplicity.

In response, Cleanthes argues divine simplicity is tantamount to atheism because an incomprehensible timeless unity is not capable of performing acts or having sentiments, successive ideas, thoughts, reason, will, love, hatred, or even a mind because all of these properties require time and constitution. For Aquinas, one reason we require theological analogy to talk about God is that creatures possess their properties in a fundamentally different way than God possesses His properties.

Elsewhere, Hume continues the theme of identifying a radically transcendent God with no god at all. Philo imagines atheists will answer in the affirmative without hesitation.

Because any two things have some similarity or other between them, to deny that whatever created the universe possessed something or other analogous to a mind would be absurd. Thus, the dispute between theists and atheists has been dissolved: there is no distinction between theism and atheism after all Hume , Philo states the conclusion is inevitable and cannot be avoided, but does not amount to much.

Gavin Hyman argues early modern atheism arose due to a neglect of theological analogy. I have argued that in fact religious skeptics broadly discussed and debated theological analogy. Browne, King, and Berkeley, each a prominent theologian of the period, used the doctrine in their defense of what they understood as orthodoxy.

Even the irreligious Hume addressed theological analogy, arguing that it rendered atheism and theism only verbally distinct.

Several questions remain. In what follows, I offer several brief suggestions for future work. Although early-modern irreligious figures did not neglect theological analogy, twentieth-century analytic philosophers have largely neglected the analogy of being. As McDaniel notes, analytic philosophers after Quine have generally maintained existence is whatever the existential quantifier denotes and so is univocal.

Moreover, one may ask how the rise of atheism among anglophone philosophers affects the rise of the non-religious and the secular in the broader culture. I take no position on this issue here. Few authors have engaged these questions. The influence of Quine and other analytic metaphysicians on most New Atheist authors is far from obvious Daniel Dennett excepted.

Dawkins considers Creationist arguments that ask whether a random process — like a tornado plowing through a junkyard — would be likely to produce a Boeing As Creationists point out, the odds are vastly opposed to junkyard tornados spontaneously assembling aircraft; so, the argument continues, natural processes are even more unlikely to produce living things, themselves vastly more complex than a Boeing Dawkins agrees; natural processes are unlikely to produce life, but God is even less likely to exist since God must be even more complex than His Creation Dawkins , — Critics say Dawkins has misunderstood or failed to respond to the most sophisticated conceptions of God, in which God is Simple.

While Dawkins neglects divine simplicity, Hume did not. Daniel Dennett, a more philosophically sophisticated New Atheist than Dawkins, considers the view that God is beyond being tantamount to atheism Dennett Similarly, as Mikael Stenmark observes, analytic philosophers of religion, whether atheists or theists, commonly retort that a God beyond being is nonsense Stenmark , 5 ; however, Stenmark makes inroads towards bringing into dialogue those who endorse and those who deny the analogy of being.

For Buckley, the neglect of Christology, instead of analogy, resulted in the rejection of Christianity Buckley Analogical predication is literal, not metaphorical, even though the meaning of terms when applied to God is incomprehensible to the created intellect. Adams, M Armogothe, JR Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Armstrong, K The Case for God. New York: Random House, Inc.

Aquinas, T. Scriptum super Sententiis SS ,. Summa Theologiae ST ,. Bayle, P The dictionary historical and critical of Mr Peter Bayle. Berkeley, G Alciphron: Or, the Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues. Ed 2 London: 1. Berman, D New York: Routledge. Forgot your password? Retrieve it. Get promoted. Powered by OnRad. Think you know music? Test your MusicIQ here! In Lyrics. By Artist. By Album. Listen online. It's been said, sometimes jokingly, that Unitarian Universalists are forever looking ahead in the hymnals as we sing, making sure there is nothing in the language we disagree with.

And I am just as guilty as the next UU of this, and honestly will defend it most of the time. But sometimes, being in community is more important than being in agreement. The person who wrote this prayer, wrote it down and left it, because they are reaching out for support, for community. And today, this congregation has been entrusted with the hopes and the gratitude and the deep spiritual need in each of these prayers.

We are going to read them, aloud, together. And in our overlapping voices, let us listen for the truth and the connection that makes itself heard. First, silently read the prayer you have. Is there a name? A diagnosis? A plea for help, for strength?

In a hospital, people pray with a vulnerable sincerity deserving of our unreserved reverence, our love. Know the person who wrote this, and hold them close to your heart as you take a breath. Then all as one we will speak our prayers aloud. A venture of the soul into the unfound infinite? No one ever prayed heartily without learning something.

I still don't pray on my own, my spiritual practices don't involve talking when no one but me is there to hear. But I no longer run from prayer. I am learning something. Can an atheist pray, and why would she want to? After today, let the answers to these questions be a little less clear, and let us remember how it can feel to pray the prayers of others with our whole hearts, to stop TRYING, for half a breath, to make a prayer fit neatly into our theology, and just let it come.

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