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Seeing and Showing the Unseen: Towards a Methodology of Utilizing Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Preaching that Employs Metaphors and Images
Szumorek, Adam P.
Szumorek, Adam P.
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2018-12
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This thesis suggests ways in which Cognitive Linguistics can be employed
in hermeneutics and homiletics to enhance the methodology of using metaphors
and images in sermons to convey the meaning of biblical texts in general and
biblical metaphors in particular.
Considering the fact that Cognitive Linguistics is a secular and pragmatic
science, I begin my study with providing a theological framework for applying it
to hermeneutics and homiletics by referring to the idea of God’s revelation.
In order to justify using metaphors and images in sermons I show that
biblical revelation abounds with images because God revealed himself creating
people in his image, that Christ is the perfect image of the Father, and the Holy
Spirit conforms us to the image of Christ.
In order to show how Cognitive Linguistics can contribute to preaching,
basic assumptions of this theory are presented. Some general heuristic principle
for the interpretation of biblical metaphors seen as a part of wider discourse are
formulated.
Finally, the thesis shows the practical implications of applying Cognitive
Linguistics to preaching which can be seen in the proposed methodology of
reworking existing biblical metaphors and creating new metaphors that convey
the meaning of biblical texts that might be non-metaphorical. The whole thesis
concludes with a practical scheme of developing macro and micro sermon
imagery.
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Szumorek, A, P. (2018). Seeing and Showing the Unseen: Towards a Methodology of Utilizing Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Preaching that Employs Metaphors and Images (Doctoral dissertation). University of Chester, United Kingdom.
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University of Chester
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