| 1. |  € 66,70 | EAN-13: 9789042930193 Masson R.
Without Metaphor, No Saving God
| Edizione: | Peeters, 2014 | | Collana: | Studies in Philosophical Theology |
Tempi di rifornimento |
Indicativamente procurabile in 20-25 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 66,70 | | Descrizione | Studies of conceptual and neural mapping in cognitive linguistics, while
posing a fundamental challenge for religious belief, also suggest new
ways of understanding how people conceptualize God and make theological
inferences. This book, inspired by that research and attentive to the
distinctive insights of Christian theology, elaborates an innovative
explanation of God-talk, better able to credibly address confusion and
controversies that trouble the church, academic theology, and broader
culture. The first part analyzes both cognitive linguistics’ challenge
to standard theological depictions of metaphorical, analogous, symbolic,
and literal language, and the discipline’s promise for providing a more
satisfactory account. The second half examines six case studies to
illustrate how clarifying the conceptual mapping in God-talk and
theological inferences provides a powerful tool for advancing religious
understanding. The illustrations include the hypothesis that religion is
an epiphenomenon of evolution, the so-called “new atheism,” Black
theology, and controversies between theologians and Church authorities.
This book has won the 2014 CTS Book Award. |  Aggiungi al Carrello |
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