Faith, truth, revelation and meaning in Berkeley's defense of the Christian religion (in Alciphron)

Modern Schoolman

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-34

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References (27)

1. See David Berman (ed.), Alciphron, or the minute philosopher in focus (London 1993), pp. 2-9.
2. On Berkeley's conception of the visual language of God, see Colin Murray Turbayne, "Visual Language from the Verbal Model," Visible Language, 3 (1969), pp. 345-370,
3. Edward G. King, "Language, Berkeley and God," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 1, no. 2 (1970), pp. 112-123,
4. Walter E. Creery, "Berkeley's Argument for a Divine Visual Language," International Journal of the Philosophy of Religion, 3 (1973), pp. 212-222,
5. David Berman, "Cognitive Theology and Emotive Mysteries in Berkeley's Alciphron," Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 81 (1981) 219-229,. pp. 219-222,
6. A. D. Kline, "Berkeley's Divine Language Argument," in E. Sosa (ed.), Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley (Dordrecht, 1987), pp. 129-142,
7. Martina Fau, Berkeley's Theorie der visuellen Sprache Gottes (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin etc, 1993).
8. On Berkeley's doctrine of analogy, see W. W. S. March, "Analogy, Aquinas and Bishop Berkeley," Theology 44 (1942), pp. 321-329,
9. Robert H. Hurlbutt, "Berkeley's Theology," in: Stephen Pepper, Karl Aschenbrenner, Benson Mates (eds.), George Berkeley - Lectures delivered before the Philosophical Union of the University of California (Berkeley/Los Angeles, 1957) 106-121, pp. 114-115,
10. Paul J. Olscamp, The Moral Philosophy of George Berkeley (The Hague, 1970), ch. 11, esp. pp. 208-215,
11. A. R. Winnett, Peter Browne: Provost, Bishop, Metaphysician (London, 1974), ch. 11,
12. J. O'Higgins, "Browne and King, Collins and Berkeley: Agnosticism or Anthropomorphism," Journal of Theological Studies 27 (1976), pp. 88-112
13. Geneviève Brykman, Berkeley-Philosophie et Apologétique (Paris, 1982), ch. 10,
14. Berkeley et les Voile des Mots (Paris, 1993), ch. 10,
15. Daniel Flage, Berkeley's Doctrine of Notions: A Reconstruction based on his Theory of Meaning (London and Sydney, 1987), ch. 3, pp. 123-132.
16. For a recent account of the views of English deists and their opponents (including Berkeley), see Isabel Rivers, Reason, Grace, and Sentiment. A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780 (Cambridge, 2000), vol. 2, ch.l.
17. On Berkeley's alleged non-cognitivism, emotivism or 'instrumentalism' with respect to propositions concerning mysteries, see M. W. Beal, "Berkeley's Linguistic Criterion," The Personalist (Summer, 1971) 499-514, pp. 510-12,
18. David Berman, "Cognitive theology.," pp. 223-7, "Enlightenment and Counter- Enlightenment in Irish Philosophy," Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 64 (1982) 148-165, pp. 161-5,
19. George Berkeley. Idealism and the Man (Oxford, 1994), pp. 144-163,
20. Bertil Belfrage, "Berkeley's Theory of Emotive Meaning (1708)," History of European Ideas, 7, (1986) No. 6:643-9, pp. 643-6,
21. Peter Walmsley, The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy (Cambridge, 1990), pp. 186-7.
22. Roomet Jakapi, "Emotive Meaning and Christian Mysteries in Berkeley's Alciphron," British Journal for the History of Philosophy (forthcoming), "Entry 720 of Berkeley's Philosophical Commentaries and 'non-cognitive' propositions in Scripture," Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (forthcoming).
23. Some scholars have observed the significance of the talk of analogies and metaphors in this context. See Samuel Johnson, Elementa Philosophica: Noetica (Philadelphia, 1752), pp. 47-9,
24. Olscamp, The Moral Philosophy, pp. 146-153,
25. Brykman, Berkeley - Philosophie et Apologétique, pp. 505-509,
26. Berkeley et les Voile des Mots, pp. 392-396.
27. See e.g. Berkeley's sermon "On Immortality," Works 7: 9-15, p. 12,