All religions recognize that the divine transcends language.
Nevertheless, people of faith have gone on talking. In this course, we will examine the rhetorical means that have been developed to perform the impossible task of dealing with words about, of, and to God. We'll close by looking at talk to God, and considering the functioning of speech acts like praying, praising, and confessing. For example, it is commonly agreed that language is a limited, human instrument and incapable really of referring to God, who transcends all human limitations. And so on.