Metaphor and God-talk

Edited by Lieven Boeve and Kurt Freyaerts.

This volume contains a selection of 15 papers originally delivered at the 25th LAUD-symposium on 'Metaphor and Religion'. The essays analyse the metaphorical nature of religious language from a variety of perspectives and 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. 291 Seiten, broschiert (Religions and Discourse; vol. 2/Peter Lang Verlag 1999) Mängelexemplar