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it applies to the former, as all- ➢ Paul Tillich’s thesis of
good, unlimitedly; whereas it symbolic language.
applies to the latter limitedly. (Tillich, 1957)
In contemporary literature ➢ Rudolf Bultmann’s idea
this approach has been of religious language
defended by a number of as a mythical language.
philosophers, including Ralph (Bultmann, 1934; Ibid,
McInerny. (Ref: McInerny, 1961; 1984; Ibid, 2000)
Ibid, 1996)
It is worth mentioning The common aim of the
that metaphorical language, early and the later Wittgenstein
in propositions like “God is was to explain the proper
my rock or my shepherd”, relation between language and
can be considered as a kind the world.
of symbolic language. In Tractatus Wittgenstein
The second idea, according believed the “picture theory
to which religious propositions of meaning/language” according
are meaningful, but not to which the structure of our
cognitively significant has (formal and meaningful)
historically been outlined in language is the same as the
various forms. The most structure of the world;
important of them might be: (Wittgenstein, 1961) that is, a
➢ The later Wittgenstein’s meaningful (atomic) proposition
idea of language game. pictures a state of affairs or
(Wittgenstein, 2001: 4) an atomic fact.
In Philosophical Investigations,
however, Wittgenstein argued
that the picture theory is not
