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Conceptual Metaphor Theory and the Mormon Understanding of God

January 1, 2016/0 Comments/in Cognitive Linguistics /by John Sanders

The debate over literal versus metaphorical biblical texts in evangelicalism and Mormonism. Suggests that conceptual metaphor theory is a superior way of dealing with biblical metaphors for God than the way Mormons and many evangelicals do.

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