Metaphors are the only way to know God?

Abstract

When St. Thomas speaks of the way of knowing God, he points out that the most appropriate way is that of analogy, and within analogies, the metaphorical one is the one that most tunes the disproportion between the creature and the creator. For his part, Ricoeur tells us about the role that symbolism plays in the constitution and capture of reality, where every metaphor, thanks to its expression in language, lends itself to multiple interpretations. This symbolic language opens to the inscrutable immensity of God and to the limitation of the expressions that represent it. This is why we think that metaphors are the most adequate, but insufficient way of knowing, in the condition of “homo viator”.