AS/A-Level: Religious Language

AQA NOTES RS: Religious Language

• The problem of religious language
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Logical Positivists
• The issue of whether religious language should be viewed cognitively or non-cognitively.
• The challenges of the Verification and Falsification Principles to the meaningfulness of religious language.
• Strengths and Weaknesses of Verification Principle.
  -Strengths and Weaknesses of the Falsification Principle.
• Responses to these challenges from verification and falsification.
• Eschatological Verification + Strengths and Weaknesses.
• Key ideas of the Celestial City.
• Religious language as an expression of a Blik with reference to Hare.
• Religious language as a language game with reference to Wittgenstein.
• Conclusions as to the issue whether religious language should be viewed cognitively or non-cognitively.
• Other views of the nature of religious language.