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Metaphor and religious language

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Clarendon Press, Jun 25, 1987 - Religion - 191 pages
Christian theology has suffered in modern times from an inability to explain its traditional reliance on metaphor to an audience intellectually formed by empiricism. The author argues that what is needed is not a more "literal" theology, but a better understanding of metaphor. Soskice offers here an account of metaphor and religious language that not only illuminates the way in which theists speak of God, but also contributes to our understanding of the workings of metaphor in scientific theory and other disciplines.

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I'm currently reading this and am excited as they are discussing how we don't need a more literal theology in the line of thinking with empiricism but that we need a better understanding of metaphor. Read full review

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Metaphor and Religious Language. By Janet Martin Soskice ...
Metaphor and Religious Language. By Janet Martin Soskice. Clarendon. Press, 1985. 191 pages. $25.00. This book sets two tasks for itself' first, ...
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Metaphor and Religious Language. By Janet Martin Soskice. Clarendon Press, 1985. 191 pages. $25.00. This book sets two tasks for itself: first, ...
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Metaphoric Process/ Metaphor and Religious Language (Book).
Metaphoric Process and Metaphor and Religious Language are both highly. original and very difficult books, especially for the nonepistomologist (ie, for ...
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See Soskice, Janet M., Metaphor and Religious Language (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985), p. 15. 15. See Richards, ia, The Philosophy of Rhetoric (Oxford: ...
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J Martin Soskice, Metaphor and Religious Language ( Oxford, 1985). William Temple, Mens Creatrix ( London, 1917). Amos Wilder, Theopoetic: Theology and the ...
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27 Janet Martin Soskice, Metaphor and Religious Language (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), p. 24. Quoted by Gerard Loughlin in ‘Squares and Circles: ...
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The Study of Metaphor
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About the author (1987)

Janet Martin Soskice is Reader in Modern Theology and Philosophical Theology at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Jesus College and co-editor of Feminism and Theology (2003).

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TitleMetaphor and religious language
Clarendon paperbacks
AuthorJanet M. Siskice
Editionreprint
PublisherClarendon Press, 1987
ISBN0198249829, 9780198249825
Length191 pages
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