Wisdom & Metaphor

2014-04-17 Philosophy

Author : Jan Zwicky
Release : 2014-04-17
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Wisdom & Metaphor written by Jan Zwicky. This book was released on 2014-04-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the foreword to Wisdom & Metaphor, Jan Zwicky observes that “those who think metaphorically are enabled to think truly, because the shape of their thinking echoes the shape of the world.” Wisdom & Metaphor explores the ways we come to understand the world through analogical structures, and the relation of this form of knowing to conventional epistemology and ontology. Zwicky uses the nature of the book itself, with its facing pages, to create resonant structures of aphorism and quotation which allow the reader to experience the kind of thinking she describes. The author’s wide-ranging influences, coupled with an understated, largely spatial, style of discourse, make this a remarkably original approach to long-standing questions about meaning and language. It offers a unique and compelling argument for the fundamental importance of metaphor to philosophy.

Wisdom Is a Woman

2019-12-05 Religion

Author : Lance Rundus
Release : 2019-12-05
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 727/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Wisdom Is a Woman written by Lance Rundus. This book was released on 2019-12-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Proverbs 1-9, we are introduced to stunning, scandalous, and mysterious Lady Wisdom. For millennia interpreters have endeavored to explain, simplify, or domesticate the vaunted and varied personification of this woman. In Wisdom Is a Woman, Lance Rundus illustrates that our difficulties with Lady Wisdom run much deeper than uncertainty about her origins and depiction, but are rooted in inherited assumptions about and definitions of metaphor, as well as a distorted disposition toward right hemisphere modes of knowledge that undercut the very attempt at discovering Wisdom at all. Wisdom Is a Woman invites the reader into the mode of aesthetic perception that opens the way to the beautiful, transcendent intimacy of relational knowledge born from constellations of canonical metaphor in Proverbs 1-9. In "obtaining scale" with Wisdom we discover that this paradoxical wonder is but a faint echo of the wonder and beauty of the Triune God in the person, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

Junkyard Wisdom

2016-10 Christian life

Author : Roy Goble
Release : 2016-10
Genre : Christian life
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Download or read book Junkyard Wisdom written by Roy Goble. This book was released on 2016-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most of us live a life of unprecedented abundance. No matter what our income level, walls of security and distraction inevitably insulate us from the poor or anyone else who might threaten our comfortable life. Yet despite our trappings of wealth--or perhaps because of them--we continue to experience a spiritual hunger for something deeper and more meaningful. In a surprising solution to that hunger, Jesus invites us to utilize our wealth and our talents to create Kingdom relationships, beginning right in our own communities. To tear down the walls, bother literal and cultural, separating God's children in our neighborhoods and across the globe. To experience a life of joy and fulfillment. In Junkyard Wisdom, Roy Goble shares what's waiting for us on the other side of complacency: an abundant future we can only reach together."--Back cover.

Wisdom Epistemology in the Psalter

2014-10-14 Religion

Author : John Kartje
Release : 2014-10-14
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Wisdom Epistemology in the Psalter written by John Kartje. This book was released on 2014-10-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We present a comparative epistemological analysis of the wisdom motifs in Psalms 1, 73, 90, and 107. These texts were selected on the basis of their epistemological content (each confronts the relationship between virtue and prosperity), and their canonical placement within the Psalter (each begins one of the Psalter’s five “Books”). We explore the implications of their respective epistemological features for our understanding of the canonical structure of the Psalter. After developing a diagnostic method for the identification and analysis of the epistemological features within a biblical text, we apply it to each of the four psalms, and discuss their epistemological qualities with respect to their canonical placement in the Psalter. We find that an epistemic progression develops across the canonical ordering of the four psalms. While the psalmists are increasingly forthright in acknowledging the moral paradox that the righteous often suffer, while the wicked can prosper, they engage this paradox with ever more sophisticated responses. Although Yhwh is ultimately the source of all wisdom, human beings can facilitate their acquisition of knowledge by seeking him out intentionally, by questioning him directly, and by observing him with a heart focused on learning.

Wisdom is a Woman

2018 Aesthetics

Author : Lance Rundus
Release : 2018
Genre : Aesthetics
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Book Rating : 188/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Wisdom is a Woman written by Lance Rundus. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate aim of this dissertation is to discover what metaphorical entailments of women and womanhood are mapped onto wisdom as an abstract entity and then to discern how this personification is intended to inform wisdom. After a summary explanation of shortcomings in traditional definitions and models, stable definition and methodology are provided via recent developments in Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Conceptual Blending, and the Theological Aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar. After the methodological prologemena, exegesis is divided into Balthasar's two stages of aesthetic perception: one which focus upon perception of the form of the MT and the other which intends to dwell upon the inward beauty, the lumen of that thing as it relates to the reality of beauty in the incarnation. As such, Wisdom as Woman is understood as that desirable paradox beckoning to relational fidelity that reaches its ultimate fulfillment only in the death, resurrection and glorification of Christ. The presentation for Lady Wisdom in Prov 1-4 aims at generating an understanding of and desire for parental and covenantal wisdom via paradox linking the vaunted depiction of divine and covenantal Lady Wisdom in the Prophets with the familiar, personal and protective characterizations of the young man0́9s faithful wife. In Prov 5-6 the Strange Woman provides a foil for the 'wife of your youth' that illustrates the disparity of outcomes for the youth based upon a blend of metaphors for marital and covenant fidelity that reasonate with the prophetic metaphor of marriage is covenant/idolatry is adultery. In Prov 7-9 the characterization, invitation, and destination associated with Lady Wisdom and the Strange Woman echoes the foil in Prov 5-6 and demonstrates that fidelity to divine covenant and human relationship is the ultimate criterion for discerning wisdom. Womanhood is used as a source/input category for Lady Wisdom to highlight the key domains of relational, marital and covenant fidelity, while allowing for the fusion of desire, obedience and blessing. The life, death and resurrection of Jesus is the apex of divine revelation and the point to which all creation and history lean.

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