On Bocheński's logic of religious discourse

pp. 122-142

in: Richard M. Martin, Whitehead's categoreal scheme and other papers, Berlin, Springer, 1974

Abstract

The very phrase shocks. What indeed is a "logic of religious discourse" or a "logic of religion," let alone "the logic of religion."¹ But Father Bocheński seems glad to shock and to lead us to the portals of a "relatively unexplored field" of a highly general kind. Ultimately the aim would be "to formulate a general logic of religion applicable to all great religions rather than to a particular religion." But for the present, he says in effect, we must remain at the portals only and survey the general terrain.