Theology in the Flesh: How Embodiment and Culture Shape the Way We Think about Truth, Morality, and God.

This book was published August 2016 by Fortress Press.

The Table of Contents:

Part 1 The Basics of Cognitive Linguistics

Chapter Two: Embodiment, Categories, Frames, and Idealized Cognitive Models

Chapter Three: Metaphors, Metonymy, and Blending and Other Conceptual Structures

Part 2 Truth, Meaning, and Morality in Light of Embodiment and Culture

Chapter Four: Truth

1. The Many Meanings of Truth
2. Human Embodiment and Truth
3. Can We Have Objective Truth?
4. Panhuman Truth
   • Assorted panhuman and widespread concepts
   • Panhuman Concepts of Time

Chapter Five: Meaning in Community

1. Contexts of Meaning
2. Literal Versus Metaphor in The Bible and Theology
3. How Christians Revise and Reject Biblical Teachings

Chapter Six: Moral Reasoning

1. Morality and Embodiment
2. Morality and Conceptual Metaphors
   • Metaphors Matter in Moral Reasoning
   • America’s Two Main Gods and Moral Politics
3. Prototypes and Morality
   • Can It Be Right to Lie?
   • Moral Exemplars and the Christian Life
4. Cultural Frames and Variation in Christian Moral Reasoning
5. The Bible, Culture, and the Need for Humility

Part 3 How Christians Reason About Theological Topics, the Bible, and God

Chapter Seven: Christian Doctrines

1. Metaphors for Sin
2. Metaphors for Salvation
3. Reflections on Sin and Salvation
4. Divine Judgment
5. Metaphors for Church
6. The Trinity as a Conceptual Blend
7. The Category Christian as Prototype

Chapter Eight: Reading the Bible

1. Image Schemas
2. Frames
3. Conceptual Metaphors
   • Various Biblical Metaphors
   • Moral Accounting
   • The Journey/Path
   • Biblical Metaphors for God
   • Principles Governing Metaphor Use
4. Metonymy
5. Conceptual Blending
6. Special Focus: Emotions
   • Emotions and Cultural Understanding
   • Anger
   • Distress

Chapter Nine: Conceiving God

1. Human Thinking About God
2. God and Metaphor
3. Anthropomorphism
4. The Apophatic Way
5. Divine Transcendence
6. Being and God
7. Are Christians Idolaters?
8. A Shared Frame for God and Creatures
9. Literality and God
10. What Is Considered Appropriate For God?
11. Support for Thinking of God as an Agent