title: Religious language as natural-sacred language
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metadata.value: Saeidi, Massoud Toossi
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metadata.value: Hossini, Seyed Hassan
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-09-03T18:01:32Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-09-03T18:01:32Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.value: Massoud Toossi Saeidi, Seyed Hassan Hossini. Religious language as natural-sacred language. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 1, pp. 176–190.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2021.114
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33044
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article offers a different interpretation of Antony Flew’s views about the problem of religious
  language. This interpretation shows that Flew’s ideas can be perceived as a critique
  of belief in the content of religious statements, rather than a critique of their meaning. By
  interpreting his thought in this way, it is clear that Flew’s approach is not new and we can find
  similar ideas in the history of theological thought. In connection with this interpretation, the
  authors analyze prevalent theories related to this problem in order to identify the principal
  doctrines used to find a new solution. In this regard, the new potential solution is assessed in
  order to complete the approach previously undertaken. The main idea is to merge two distinct
  and also contrasting concepts found in the literature: “natural” and “sacred”. Such a merging
  can begin with the concept of natural language as a theory drawn from the literature on the
  philosophy of language. According to the principles of the philosophy of language adopted by
  this article, religious language is rooted in natural language, but it is distinct from other forms
  in that it is the customized use of natural language by the saints of a particular religion. By
  offering an explanation to natural language, it is possible to view saints as the ones who used
  natural language in order to talk about the divine sacred realm. Similar to previous thinkers
  who spoke about religious language, the authors offer their own analogy. This analogy is compared
  and contrasted with previous ones to reveal the advantages of the proposed new view of
  the problem of religious language. The authors propose a new type of natural language with
  the special characteristic of being sacred.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was made possible due to a grant from the Iran National Science Foundation (INSF).
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religious language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sacred knowledge
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: natural language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: saints
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: natural-sacred language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Religious language as natural-sacred language
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metadata.value: Article
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