LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY’S OBJECTION A second modern objection to the notion of a verbal or propositional revelation from God to human beings contends that language is simply inadequate as a vehicle of personal communication and surely incapable of expressing literal truth about transcendent realities. This objection—rooted in present-day positivistic skepticism—finds expression in poets like Gertrude Stein, novelists like Franz Kafka, playwrights like Samuel Beckett, and philosophers such as Ludwig