Amish and Hutterites to numerous *Baptist denominations. A Latin phrase meaning “analogy of being,” the medieval principle of how human language, by principle of analogy, can also be applied to God. Two reasons are usually given to defend this principle: all created reality has been ordered by God to make this possible, and humans bear God’s *image. This allows finite human minds to reason from the effect (creation) to the cause (the Creator) and to know the nature of God apart from