When reading philosophical theology literature, I often come across 3 sets of terminologies to how a human being comes to (metaphysically) know God or to understand (conceptually) who God is:
Biblical: Names of God such as
El Shaddai, YHWH Elohim Sabaoth*, El Elyon, Haqqadosh, I am, Adonay, etc. (in the Old Testament) and
Kyrios, Abba, Emmanuel, the Alpha and Omega, etc (in the New Testament)
which is directly practical to a Christian's daily life, being referenced in
- the Lord's Prayer ("Hallowed be Thy Name")
- the 3rd commandment ("Do not take the name of the Lord in vain")
- the liturgy ("Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord")
- etc.
Theological: God's attributes such as the 3 omnis, Loving, Just, Good, Faithful, Holy, etc. commonly divided into many schemes such as communicable vs. incommunicable attributes, entitative vs. personal attributes, or a simple enumeration.
Philosophical: Univocally vs. analogically vs. equivocally which strong ties to the nature of language (for an introduction, see this article), where the 3 most common analogies I see are:
- Analogy of faith way to interpret the Bible (see Biblical Theology and the Analogy of Faith)
- Analogy of being or Analogia entis
- Psychological analogy of the Trinity (see excellent article here)
My question: for theologians who want to use all 3 when describing their theologies, how do they correlate the 3 sets?
