Amor Theologicus, Odium Theologicum

by JLS
for the GC

THIS IS A COMMENTARY ON R. B. JONES´s commentary on ""Admire": the implicatures". Some excellent points he raises! Í´m pasting them here as I have not been able to post them under the relevant thread. Sorry about that.

Excellent points, Roger!

Yes, there is nothing MORE unphilosophical than what Grice called "amor theologicus". Actually he thought there is: "odium theologicum". I have not bee able to find the source for this opposition, which is in his "Reply to Richards". What irritates the classicist in me about it, is that "odium" is neuter in Latin, and thus gets, as Grice notes, "theologicum". This I think was the usual phrase. But he coins "amor theologicus" for the similarly antiphilosophical strain.

What he is having in mind I forget. But surely it cannot be JUST a "man of letters" as such. It has to be AT LEAST his letters!