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Parental love as metaphor for divine-human love
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Aristotle once remarked, "Everything said metaphorically is obscure."1 By this the great Greek philosopher indicated that figures of speech lack a certain degree of the clarity of a direct statement.2 Nevertheless, the use of metaphorical language forms a basic means of human communication.3 Indeed, one might say that A. T. Robertson's remark that in one sense "words are metaphors, sometimes with the pictured flower still blooming, sometimes with the blossom blurred" has distinct validity.4 Moreover, as L. Ryken demonstrates, a high degree of richness exists in metaphorical language that ...
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The Body in Question: Metaphor and Meaning in the Interpretation of Ephesians 5:21-33
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Beyond a comparison of two distinct things; or, what students of literature gain from a cognitive linguistic approach to metaphor.
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Between Horror and Hope: Paul's Metaphorical Language of Death in Romans 6:1-11
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The power of metaphor in the age of electronic media
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Has metaphor collapsed?
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THE POWER OF METAPHOR: In the Age of Electronic Media [+].
; RAYMOND GOZZI, JR. [*] Theories of Metaphor A METAPHOR IS A TRANSFERENCE, naming one thing in terms of another...sounds so simple -- and is simple enough for people to use metaphors every day. Yet there seems to be no end to theorizing about...
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Follow that metaphor: what faith, jazz & poetry have in common.
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The Metaphor of Scaffolding: Its Utility for the Field of Learning Disabilities.(Statistical Data Included)
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Circumscribing the Prostitute: The Rhetorics of Intertextuality, Metaphor and Gender in Jeremiah 3.1-4.4
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