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dc.contributor.authorSzumorek, Adam P.
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-09T12:54:42Z
dc.date.available2019-10-09T12:54:42Z
dc.date.issued2018-12
dc.identifier.citationSzumorek, 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10034/622687
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Chesteren_US
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dc.subjectBiblical metaphorsen_US
dc.subjectCognitive linguisticsen_US
dc.subjectSermon imageryen_US
dc.titleSeeing and Showing the Unseen: Towards a Methodology of Utilizing Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Preaching that Employs Metaphors and Imagesen_US
dc.typeThesis or dissertationen_US
dc.rights.embargodate2020-03-13
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dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
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