What extra premise is required for a corporealist inference from Qur’an 20:5?
Refuting Anthropomorphism: Divine Attributes, Scriptural Language and Likeness
- Treating every possible lexical meaning as equally definitive
- Keeping transcendence in mind when reading istiwāʾ
- Assuming the expression necessarily denotes creaturely physical positioning
- Allowing a possible nonliteral Arabic sense