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Conceiving God: Literal And Figurative Prompt For A More Tectonic Distinction, Robert Masson
Conceiving God: Literal And Figurative Prompt For A More Tectonic Distinction, Robert Masson
Theology Faculty Research and Publications
John Sanders’ Theology in the Flesh, the first comprehensive overview of the toolkit that contemporary cognitive linguistics offers for theological appropriation, despite its remarkable success, gives rather minimal attention to blending theory, one of the discipline’s most formidable tools. This paper draws on blending theory to offer an alternative to Sanders’ chapter on conceiving God. Central to the proposal is claim that God-talk, like many of the advances in science, technology, and art, entails a kind of tectonic understanding and conceptual mapping that is neither literal nor figurative.
Are Aquinas And Whitehead Metaphorical And Analogical All The Way Down?, Robert Masson
Are Aquinas And Whitehead Metaphorical And Analogical All The Way Down?, Robert Masson
Theology Faculty Research and Publications
The paper argues from the perspective of a significant strand of interpretation of Aquinas and from insights in cognitive linguistics that a fruitful dialogue between Whitehead and Thomism needs to take into account that metaphysics and talk about God are metaphorical and analogical all the way down. Cognitive linguistics provides an explanatory scheme for explaining how Aquinas’s tectonic use of analogy shifts the ground of our conventional fields of meanings to create space to conceptualize what otherwise would be beyond grasp and to make inferences possible that otherwise would be unthinkable. The essay concludes with a question, admittedly from a …
Analogy And Metaphoric Process, Robert Masson
Analogy And Metaphoric Process, Robert Masson
Theology Faculty Research and Publications
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