Metaphors for God: Why and how do our choices matter for humans? The application of contemporary cognitive linguistics research to the debate on God and metaphor

Pastoral Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 207-238

  DesCamp, Mary Therese ^a,c   Sweetser, Eve E ^b  

^a Graduate Theological Union   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive linguistics; Metaphor; Metaphorsfor God

Indexed keywords

EID: 13444291687     PISSN: 00312789     EISSN: 15736679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11089-004-0554-5     Document Type: Article

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