Edward Feser reviews The Failure of Natural Theology: A Critical Appraisal of the Philosophical Theology of Thomas Aquinas, by Jeffrey D. Johnson, at First Things.
"The source of these errors is Johnson’s misunderstanding of Aquinas’s view that language about God ought to be interpreted in an analogical way. Johnson confuses analogy with metaphor. True, all metaphorical language is analogical, but for Aquinas, the converse is not true—that is to say, not all analogical language is metaphorical."
See Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, in Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volumes 19-20, and Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volumes 17-18.
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