Can We Speak Literally of God?

Religious Studies 21 (1):53 - 59 (1985)
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I shall argue that the question ‘Can we speak literally of God?’ is fundamentally an epistemological question concerning whether we can know that God exists. If and only if we can know that God can exist can we know that we can speak literally of God

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10.1017/s0034412500016887

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