Add to ORKGReligious discourse often seems to draw its life-blood from metaphor. Even the theologian is occasionally impelled to abandon literal speech in favor of the metaphorical mode. Metaphors may reveal both the actual and the possible aspects of things, as described in Max Black\u27s famous essay on Metaphor . The religious imagination will inevitably find for itself a language congenial to its own special purposes, a language enriched and extended by metaphors
I will explore some of my conclusions concerning conceptual metaphors collected during a series of i...
The main purpose of this article is to provide biblical scholarship with a broad hermeneutical frame...
Most theories of metaphor look at what occurs inside a metaphorical phrase and posit a shift in mean...
Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of s...
The purpose of religion is to offer a unified way of thinking about the world so that it has a meani...
In this paper, I argue that there are indispensable and irreducible metaphors in religious...
Languages play an essential role in communicating aesthetic, scientific and religious convictions, a...
By rejecting orthodoxy, systemization, and objectivity, metaphor allows us to express the extraordin...
Abstract. Panmetaphoricism is the view that our speech about God can only be metaphorical. In this e...
The issue of identifying metaphors is not clear-cut in most religious texts (Charteris-Black, 2005)....
Metaphors are usually not stand-alone units, but are very often components of larger chains that bui...
The use of metaphor is a way of shedding new light on an already ex isting phenomena, by looking at ...
The "ultimate aim" of the recently introduced Religious Education Curriculum for Catholic Primary Sc...
Studies of conceptual and neural mapping in cognitive linguistics, while posing a fundamental challe...
As a system of communication, language has literal and figurative meanings. In the case of literal l...
I will explore some of my conclusions concerning conceptual metaphors collected during a series of i...
The main purpose of this article is to provide biblical scholarship with a broad hermeneutical frame...
Most theories of metaphor look at what occurs inside a metaphorical phrase and posit a shift in mean...
Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of s...
The purpose of religion is to offer a unified way of thinking about the world so that it has a meani...
In this paper, I argue that there are indispensable and irreducible metaphors in religious...
Languages play an essential role in communicating aesthetic, scientific and religious convictions, a...
By rejecting orthodoxy, systemization, and objectivity, metaphor allows us to express the extraordin...
Abstract. Panmetaphoricism is the view that our speech about God can only be metaphorical. In this e...
The issue of identifying metaphors is not clear-cut in most religious texts (Charteris-Black, 2005)....
Metaphors are usually not stand-alone units, but are very often components of larger chains that bui...
The use of metaphor is a way of shedding new light on an already ex isting phenomena, by looking at ...
The "ultimate aim" of the recently introduced Religious Education Curriculum for Catholic Primary Sc...
Studies of conceptual and neural mapping in cognitive linguistics, while posing a fundamental challe...
As a system of communication, language has literal and figurative meanings. In the case of literal l...
I will explore some of my conclusions concerning conceptual metaphors collected during a series of i...
The main purpose of this article is to provide biblical scholarship with a broad hermeneutical frame...
Most theories of metaphor look at what occurs inside a metaphorical phrase and posit a shift in mean...