Metaphor and Religious Language

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.

Acknowledgements	p. vi
Introduction	p. ix
Classical Accounts of Metaphor	p. 1
Problems of Definition	p. 15
Theories of Metaphor	p. 24
Metaphor Amongst Tropes	p. 54
Metaphor and 'Words Proper'	p. 67
Model and Metaphor in Science and Religion: a Critique of the Arguments	p. 97
Metaphor, Reference, and Realism	p. 118
Metaphor and Theological Realism	p. 142
Notes	p. 162
Bibliography	p. 181
Index	p. 189
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