Conceiving God: Literal and Figurative Prompt for a More Tectonic Distinction

Authors

Robert Masson, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Publication Date

2-17-2018

Publisher

De Gruyter Open

Source Publication

Open Theology

Source ISSN

2300-6579

Abstract

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.

Comments

Published version. Open Theology, Vol. 4, No. 1 (February 2, 2018). DOI. © 2018. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. BY-NC-ND 4.0

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Recommended Citation

Masson, Robert, "Conceiving God: Literal and Figurative Prompt for a More Tectonic Distinction" (2018). Theology Faculty Research and Publications. 664.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theo_fac/664