Abstract
Our starting point is [3], Jerome Gellman's recent The Metaphilosophy of Religious Language, a paper which we find challenging, but puzzling. It is challenging because Gellman seeks to take metaphilosopizing about Biblical theism so refreshingly far beyond disputes in Hick, Flew, and others over intelligibility and verification. He hopes at his meta level to provide tools for (a) evaluating the relative adequacy of cognitivist attempts to analyze what theist groups have said; (b) distinguishing what he calls internal problems of pure Biblical theism, (like that of squaring God's perfections with His tolerance of Evil), from what he calls external problems, (like that of reconciling Divine foreknowledge with human freedom). We shall briefly mention in Part I some sources of puzzlement about Gellman's claims in the paper. Then we shall try again briefly in Part II to develop some examples of what seem to be more lucid and plausible applications of metaphilosophy to religious disagreements.
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