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When you open up the Bible and read what God says about the church, you find yourself staring at one big mixed metaphor. We read that the church is like a body, a flock of sheep, branches of a vine, a bride, a temple, God’s building, a people, exiles, a holy nation, a royal priesthood, salt of the earth, the Israel of God, the elect lady, and on and on.
metaphor. In 1 Corinthians 3:16 “You are a temple of God”is a metaphor. In Matthew 26:26-28 Jesus takes a loaf and says “this is my body”and he takes up a cup and says “this is my blood of the covenant”: these are metaphors. How many controversies on the Lord’s Supper would have been settled if brethren had
2013. Since the Enlightenment, the reconciliation of religion and science has been a primary concern for religious devotees. In the past two decades, one could consider controversies in the United States such as the teaching of Darwinian evolution in public schools or disagreement about the root causes of climate change as evidence of modern society’s continual negotiation between religious ...
- John K McVay
- J. Charteris-Black, Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis Jonathan Charteris-Black 2004
- 8.3.3 Light metaphors in the Old and New Testaments
- 8.3.4 Plant metaphors in the Old and New Testaments
- 8.4 Summary
they can only be expressed by referring to what is experienced in the physical world. The topics that are dealt with by religion – the origins of life, suffering, the struggle between good and evil, life and death etc. – are also ones for which judgement and evaluation are often necessary. In the previous chapters on political discourse, sports and...
Metaphors of light account for around 9 per cent of all metaphors in the sample. Two of the most productive metaphor keywords are light and dark; these account for over 50 per cent of metaphors in this domain suggesting that light and dark are prototype metaphors of Christianity. Metaphoric uses of light and dark occur with similar frequency and in...
Plant metaphors accounted for a little over 10 per cent of the total metaphors in the sample and are motivated by our knowledge of the processes and stages of natural growth. The beginnings of a natural process are with the seed taking root and shooting, before growing into plant or tree; it then produces branches, blossoms, buds and, eventu-ally, ...
In this chapter I have identified the major source domains for metaphor in the Bible; I have also proposed a set of conceptual metaphors that account for these linguistic metaphors and a set of conceptual keys that account for the conceptual metaphors. These are summarised in Table 8.6. Table 8.6 Summary of conceptual keys and conceptual metaphors ...
- Jonathan Charteris-Black
- 2004
Sep 5, 2024 · The psalms are full of metaphors. Psalm 23:1 famously states, “The Lord is my shepherd.” Psalm 18:2 contains multiple metaphors: “The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.” Each metaphor provides a truth to ponder about who God is.
Keywords metaphor theory, Hebrew Bible, Old Testament, conceptual metaphor theory, poetry, rhetoric, literary approaches, figurative language, cognitive linguistics Introduction This article surveys theories and research on metaphor and their appropriation for analysis of the Hebrew Bible (HB) up to 2020.
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Nov 2, 2024 · Imagine standing in a classroom in Western Uganda, watching students struggle with the same confusion—struggling to untangle the Bible's rich, complex language that seems to dance between literal and figurative meaning. When properly understood, the Bible is a beautiful canvas of literary landscapes that can transform our understanding from ...
