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Language, Meaning and God

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

D. M. MacKay
D. M. MacKay
Affiliation:
University of Keele.
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The burden of the Christian religion is not primarily that certain attitudes are desirable nor that certain practices are comfortable, but that certain things are true. Certain facts have to be faced, certain claims recognized. Questions of the meaningfulness and truth-status of religious language are thus central to Christian apologetic. However much emphasis we give to the vital link between true belief and action - and for the Bible the two are inseparable - there is no escaping the obligation to enquire into the meaning and truth of Christian affirmations as well as their personal or social effectiveness.

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Philosophy , Volume 47 , Issue 179 , January 1972 , pp. 1 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1972

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