چكيده لاتين :
Problems concerning religious language and knowledge have plagued
philosophers and theologians perennially. If God is not a being but Being
itself, not an object to be encountered empirically in the world in which we
live—put crudely, one does not bump into God—and if all our knowledge
arises in the context of our experience of finite empirical objects, what can
one know or say about God? The radical distinction between God and
creatures marked out within the Judaeo-Christian tradition by theologians like
Thomas Aquinas can serve to raise more questions rather than to point
toward any solutions of the problems of religious and theological
language.The realization that we can know God only as the “beginning
and end of all things” could perhaps lead to agnosticism, mysticism,
or fideism, but (we might think) would hardly lead toward a rationally
articulated discourse about God. It might well seem that all we can do
when speaking of God is to deny of him the limitations pervasive in
created reality. This paper will consider these issues in more detail.
