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The metaphorical and metonymic understanding of the trinitarian dogma

Written in the spirit of cognitive semantics, the paper is an attempt at analyzing the limited understanding by Christian believers of the Trinitarian dogma as presented in biblical & theological texts. Though ultimately an insoluble mystery for human reason, the dogma can be shown to have a measure of metaphorical & metonymic coherence. At the same time, the paper claims that human access to transcendental notions is, in a deep sense, inevitably metaphorical & consists of an elaborate network of mappings of human-sized notions onto the domain of the divine. This network is claimed to be a manifestation of the root metaphor GOD-HUMAN. The author further claims that the opposite root metaphor, HUMAN-GOD, constitutes one of the warrants, together with divine inspiration & the context provided by Revelation, of the truth of statements about God made on the basis of the first root metaphor.

metaphor; metonymy; Bible; discourse; meaning

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