Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language

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Fortress Press, 1 янв. 1982 г. - Всего страниц: 225
". . . a liberating book about a liberating theological approach."--Christianity and Crisis"Metaphorical Theology is a brilliant piece of writing which will make an important contribution both to new thinking on he nature of religious language and also to the dialogue between Christianity and Feminist Theology."--Rosemary Radford RuetherGarrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary"The great virtue of Professor McFague's book is that it tackles [some] crucial problems in an extremely perceptive and creative way . . . .All in all it is a most timely book both for the theological and for the church at large."--Maurice WilesRegius Professor of DivinityChrist Church, Oxford University

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Parable Paradigm and RootMetaphor in Christianity
108
Models or Dogmas?
111
Models and Concepts
117
The Truth of Theological Models
131
Criteria for Theological Models
137
God the Father Model or Idol
145
Patriarchy in Perspective
147
A New Paradigm and a New Model
152

Scripture
54
Models in Science
67
Natural Science the Humanities and the Imagination
75
Paradigms
79
Types of Models and Two Views of Models in Science
83
Central Insights from Scientific Models Pertinent to Theology
90
Models in Theology
103
The Search for New Models
164
God the Friend
177
Conclusion
193
Notes
195
Index of Authors
223
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Стр. 37 - In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word, or phrase, whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction.
Стр. 180 - For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon'; the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!
Стр. 58 - Only the support of familiar and common understanding makes possible the venture into the alien, the lifting up of something out of the alien, and thus the broadening and enrichment of our own experience of the world.
Стр. 214 - The paradox consists in the fact that there is no other way to do justice to the notion of metaphorical truth than to include the critical incision of the (literal) 'is not' within the ontological vehemence of the (metaphorical) 'is.
Стр. 55 - It functions not as an instrument self-powered and alone, but as a dutiful member of a complex and capricious organism. Not only how but what it sees is regulated by need and prejudice.
Стр. 176 - A woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
Стр. 151 - Rabbi/ for you have only one Master and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth 'father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you to be called 'teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ.
Стр. 32 - Metaphor is as ultimate as speech itself, and speech as ultimate as thought. If we try to penetrate them beyond a certain point, we find ourselves questioning the very faculty and instrument with which we are trying to penetrate them.

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