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Normative Theology and Meta-Theology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2011

John T. Granrose
John T. Granrose
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University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. 30601
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Notes and Observations
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 63 , Issue 3 , July 1970 , pp. 449 - 451
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1970

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1 In this paper, such statements as “God exists” are considered “first-order” statements. Statements which are about first-order statements are considered “second-order” or “meta” statements. For example, “‘God exists’ is not empirically falsifiable” would be a second-order or meta-theological statement.

2 For accounts of this approach to meta-ethics see Baier, Kurt, Good Reasons, Philosophical Studies 4 (1953), 1–15Google Scholar, and Toulmin, Stephen, An Examination of the Place of Reason in Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964)Google Scholar, especially Chapter 14, Reason and Faith, 202–21.

3 The linking of faith with morals (i.e., with normative statements) in the dogma of papal infallibility suggests that there may be a genuine insight in the suggestion that theological statements might be construed as normative.