Metaphor and Religious Language (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198249825)

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.

Author: Janet M. Siskice, Janet Martin Soskice
ISBN-10: 0198249829
ISBN-13: 9780198249825
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Published: 06/25/1987
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.48w x 0.62d