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Matthew March 29th, 2014 Belief and Unbelief in the Modern World Professor Jacobs Mid-Term Examination Long Answer 1. Explain the Analogical (Proper Proportionality) and Metaphorical approaches to speaking about God, giving an example of each. Make sure that you explain how each avoids the use of literal or direct language about God. When speaking about God, we naturally tend to give God characteristics or attributes that otherwise would be considered un proper. Two approaches that we use when speaking about God are Analogical and Metaphorical. Analogical and Metaphorical approaches are all about giving attribution to thing, in this case God. There are three predications, univocal, equivocal, and analogy. The univocal approach talks about the same term for different subjects that have the same exact meaning. The equivocal approach takes the same term, but it has a different subject and meaning. An analogy is a comparison of two things, in this case God is going to be compared to different things. The analogical approach is also called proper proportionality. When speaking about God in the analogical (proper proportionality) approach, we use the same term, but a different subject. For the metaphorical approach when speaking about God, we compare God to something and give him characteristics that he would not normally have. For example, when talking about proper proportionality, I may say that God is heroic. Now God is heroic may seem simple, but if I replace God with the word George Washington, now I have George Washington is heroic. While George Washington may have been heroic, comparing him to God using the same term gives me a different proportion. Now when I talk about the Metaphorical approach of God, I am ... ... middle of paper ... ... God. I believe Sigmund Freud would than answer that things go on in our brains like superego, ego, and id that are undetected and unexplained causing us not to have to think of something greater. I believe Anselm would close up the argument by saying if something only exists in your mind, can you think of something greater that only exists in you mind. I believe Anselm and Sigmund Freud would stop talking after a brief conversation because they would both be so stubborn on their views. Anselm's argument is convincing in that it has logic behind it, while Freud's is just contradicting the saying God exists. Both Sigmund Freud and Anselm pose good arguments, and I believe a conversation between the two would have gone how I described it. Anselm and Freud both believe in their arguments and their conversation would have been short lived because of it.