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4 ssss1 See for instance Isaiah 55:8–9; Acts 17:24; 1 Kings 8:27; Job 38–42.

5 ssss1 Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae I.2.a.2; Augustine of Hippo Confessions 7.10.16. For a discussion of the roots of apophatic theology, see Andrew Louth, “Holiness and the Vision of God in the Eastern Fathers”, in Holiness: Past and Present, ed. Stephen C. Barton (London: T&T Clark, 2003), 217–239.

6 ssss1 See Janet Martine Soskice’s Metaphor and Religious Language (Oxford: Clarendon, 1987).

7 ssss1 Augustine, Sermons 117.3.5.

8 ssss1 I suggest that analogy is a species of metaphorical predication however cannot develop this view fully here. It is worth distinguishing, at this point, polysemy with hybridity: the prior belonging to a term’s reception and the latter its semantic content.

9 ssss1 George Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Theology in a Post-Liberal Age (Louisville: Westminster John Knox press, 1984), 33–34.

10 ssss1 I follow Rorty’s development of a pragmatic theory of truth as found in his Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, 35th anniversary ed. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009) and elsewhere in his writing. While the pragmatic theory of truth he presents there has undergone much critique and development, I suggest the nub of his argument presented in this book remains compelling, particularly for the project of pluralistic theology. Correspondence theories of truth cannot simply apply to religious propositions since it would require an impossible Archimedean vantage point and coherence theories fail to break from the perhaps more serious threat of non-realism.