The Editors : Lieven Boeve and Kurt Feyaerts both completed their studies in dogmatic theology and linguistics respectively. They are professors at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Metaphor and God-talk
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- Nombre de pages291
- ISBN3-906762-51-3
- EAN9783906762517
- Date de parution01/11/1999
- CollectionReligions and Discourse
- ÉditeurPeter Lang
Résumé
This volume contains a selection of the papers originally delivered at the 25th LAUD-symposium on 'Metaphor and Religion'. The essays in this volume analyse the metaphorical nature of religious language from a variety of perspectives. The concept of metaphor has been developed by the sustained attention of theologians, philosophers, linguists and literary theorists for more than two millennia. The last twenty years have witnessed a renewed and intensified interest in this powerful dynamism of thought.
The present contributions offer a survey of the most adhered-to theories of metaphor. They elaborate on their significance for religious language : next to analogy as a philosophical and theological tool, interactionist, pragmatist and cognitivist theories are used to shed light on the peculiarity of human efforts to talk and think about the transcendent.
The present contributions offer a survey of the most adhered-to theories of metaphor. They elaborate on their significance for religious language : next to analogy as a philosophical and theological tool, interactionist, pragmatist and cognitivist theories are used to shed light on the peculiarity of human efforts to talk and think about the transcendent.