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Colin Gunton, Divine Love, and Univocal Predication
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In this paper I draw from Colin Gunton and argue that the scriptures teach, or else presuppose, that univocity is true—specifically, that the term ‘love’ can possess the same meaning when applied to God and humans. My argument for this conclusion has three stages. In the first stage I survey the three major views of theological predication relevant to my Gunton-inspired argument—univocity, equivocity, and analogy. From there I attempt to assuage the worry that one cannot adjudicate between theories of predication by appealing to the biblical texts. Finally, I contend that univocity, in contrast to analogy and equivocity, best undergirds Jesus’ command in John 15:9-12 to love others as the Father has loved him.
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David B. Burrell, “Creator/Creatures Relation: ‘The Distinction’ vs. ‘Onto-Theology’,” Faith and Philosophy 25 (2008), 183. Related worries can be found in John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock, Truth in Aquinas (London: Routledge, 2001), 33-34; and John Milbank, The Word Made Strange: Theology, Language, and Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), 47.
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See Alston, “Religious Language,” 232-236. On the subject of predicating speech-acts to God see, Nicholas Wolterstorff ’s Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 37-57, 114-130; as well as Kevin J. Vanhoozer’s Remythologizing Theology: Divine Action, Passion, and Authorship (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 210-211.
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Barbour, Myths, Models, and Paradigms (New York: Harper & Row, 1974).
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See D. A. Carson, The Gospel according to John (Nottingham: Apollos, 1991), p. 570: “God’s own love for his Son will become their love. The love with which they learn to love is nothing less than the love amongst the persons of the Godhead.”
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Colin Gunton, Divine Love, and Univocal Predication
in Journal of Reformed TheologySearch for other papers by Jordan Wessling in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Abstract
In this paper I draw from Colin Gunton and argue that the scriptures teach, or else presuppose, that univocity is true—specifically, that the term ‘love’ can possess the same meaning when applied to God and humans. My argument for this conclusion has three stages. In the first stage I survey the three major views of theological predication relevant to my Gunton-inspired argument—univocity, equivocity, and analogy. From there I attempt to assuage the worry that one cannot adjudicate between theories of predication by appealing to the biblical texts. Finally, I contend that univocity, in contrast to analogy and equivocity, best undergirds Jesus’ command in John 15:9-12 to love others as the Father has loved him.
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| Aufrufe von Kurzbeschreibungen | 436 | 53 | 4 |
| Gesamttextansichten | 75 | 1 | 0 |
| PDF-Downloads | 76 | 1 | 0 |
