Comments on: The Importance of Posture in Studying God’s Word https://reformedforum.org/the-importance-of-posture-in-studying-gods-word/ Reformed Theological Resources Wed, 01 Mar 2017 03:58:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Steve https://reformedforum.org/the-importance-of-posture-in-studying-gods-word/#comment-3521938 Wed, 01 Mar 2017 03:58:44 +0000 http://reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=2177#comment-3521938 From Dictionary of Theological Terms, McKim
Univocity: A view of language in which names are seen as being univocal, i.e., having the same meaning throughout their various uses. Or, the exact application of a name or term in two different things.

equivocism: A philosophical description of the use of language for names; e.g., when terms carry different means, to say that “God is good” is not the same as to say that “Humans are good.”

I pulled up more use cases from my Logos Van Til collection:
Ontology (The Reformed Pastor and Modern Thought)
The way has now been prepared for a discussion of ontology. Here again there is the correlativity of the principle of continuity that would lead to complete univocism or identity, and the corresponding principle of discontinuity that would lead to complete equivocism or discreteness. The position maintained is constantly that which is midway between univocism and equivocism.

Revelation About God from Nature – a Natural Theology (Systematic Theology)
If therefore men would only reason analogically they should be able to reason from nature to nature’s God. But sinners until saved by grace do not reason analogically. They reason univocally. And because they reason univocally about nature they conclude that no god exists or that a god exists but never that the true God exists.

Cornelius Van Til, An Introduction to Systematic Theology (The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company: Phillipsburg, NJ, 1979).

Hope that helps

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By: Neal Horsley https://reformedforum.org/the-importance-of-posture-in-studying-gods-word/#comment-1430385 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:42:06 +0000 http://reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=2177#comment-1430385 I just finished reading Van Til’s NATURE AND SCRIPTURE and I can’t find an understandable definition of univocism and equivocism. Can you, or anybody, explain that to me?

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