Metaphor and Religious Language

by Janet Martin Soskice

Book Overview

Christian theology has suffered in modern times by 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. The account of metaphor and religious language offered here not only illuminates the way in which the clergy speak of God, but also contributes to our understanding of the workings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198247273
• ISBN13: 9780198247272
• Release Date: August 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.