He argues that if carefully crafted,
the use of metaphors in judicial opinions assists in understanding.
The author addresses
the use of metaphors in judicial opinions.
L.O. To analyse Shakespeare's
use of metaphors in order to create meaning in poetry.
On the «shocking»
use of metaphor in the New Testament, see Beardslee, Literary Criticism, 11.
The use of the metaphor in deepening the tray will be discussed and practiced.
To be sure, I am not criticising
the use of metaphor in a more general sense.
He has presented and published on issues in adventure therapy and
the use of metaphor in therapy since 1978.
That was the moment I started to think about doing a workshop on the group leader's
use of metaphor in group
Not exact matches
So, he started
using more
metaphors and analogies and sharing more
of himself
in status meetings and casual conversations.
Take George Orwell's advice: «Never
use a
metaphor, simile, or other figure
of speech that you are
used to seeing
in print.»
By being self - aware
of your own thought processes, you can consciously edit out a tendency to think
in battlefield
metaphors and reframe situations
using the ecosystem model.
Moneyball was
used as a
metaphor to illustrate the power
of analytics
in health care and targeted hospitals, health systems and large physician groups.
For example, Pinterest decided to
use the vocabulary
of pinning
in boards to reinforce a physical
metaphor.
Jesus is reported as
using the same
metaphor in John 11
in describing the condition
of Lazarus (who had died unexpectedly) to his disciples.
As it turns out, Jesus
uses the
metaphor of Father because
in Oriental thought
of that day the first born son was thought to inherit all, including character traits, from his father.
Because Jesus
used metaphors that created mental pictures
in the right brain
of His listeners.
Fundamentalism
uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and
metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.)
of religion
in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose
of controlling the lives
of others.
Ramanuja
used the body - soul
metaphor to indicate the sense
in which God is the inner director
of all things.
For example, pastors and the Bible often
use the
metaphor of a father
in relation to God.
(We do not have
in our language a comparative for the adjective «past» — something like «paster» — thus our language again has to
use a
metaphor of spatial distance: «more remote
in the past.»)
Pretty strong language, but no stronger than the
metaphor Daniel Mitchell
of the Heritage Foundation
used,
in an op - ed article
in The Washington Times, to «describe a bill designed to prevent corporations from rechartering abroad for tax purposes: Mitchell described this legislation as the «Dred Scott tax bill,» referring to the infamous 1857 Supreme Court ruling that required free states to return escaped slaves.
When Noll speaks
of Equiano's «immersion»
in Scripture, he is not
using that
metaphor casually, as an extract from the Narrative makes clear with its «fusillade
of scriptural quotations and allusions.»
(I apologize to those that dislike
metaphors, but I almost can't communicate if I don't get to
use them, and as insufficient as they at times are, they are very close to the language
of what I believe, because you can't really explain or define someone into believing... you can only live out your beliefs
in a way that you share with others, and when given the opportunity shine a light, or point a direction, or walk along with someone for a bit).
Jesus
used agricultural
metaphors, Paul quoted Greek poets, and we too need to find ways
of expressing gospel truths
in the thought language
of our audience...
And because
in its origin the word had meant not simply man's breathing but God's wind, it became the verbal agent by which man could say that his best life is inbreathed by God — inspired, as we say,
using the same
metaphor Latinized — so that ruach at last meant the Spirit
of God inspiring the spirit
of man.
A
metaphor is a word or phrase
used inappropriately.12 It belongs
in one context but is being
used in another: the arm
of the chair, war as a chess game, God the father.
Without the
use of personal, agential
metaphors, however, including among others God as mother, father, healer, lover, friend, judge, and liberator, the
metaphor of the world as God's body would be pantheistic, for the body would be all there were.25 Nonetheless, the model is most precisely designated as panentheistic; that is, it is a view
of the God - world relationship
in which all things have their origins
in God and nothing exists outside God, though this does not mean that God is reduced to these things.26
In support
of your own disbelief, Jesus himself
used metaphors to speak to his flock (the parables).
I'm also affiliated with the Jewish Renewal movement, and
in Renewal, we frequently
use Hasidic
metaphors — which
in turn draw on kabbalistic
metaphors —
of raising up the sparks
of divinity
in creation
in order to heal creation's brokenness.
Jesus»
use of metaphor,
in the form
of simile and analogy (the parables), is the best attested and surest documented feature
of his teaching that we possess.
Principles
of interpretation (Hermeneutics) 1) Literal Principle — Scripture is to be understood
in its natural, normal sense, read literally 2) Grammar Principle — Deal with what it says
in the way it says it, be it
using metaphor, simile, narrative, etc. 3) Historical Principle — Read the Bible
in its historical context 4) Synthesis Principle — No one part
of the Bible contradicts any other part (Scripture interprets Scripture) 5) Practical Principle — It contains a practical application 6) Illumination
of the Holy Spirit — It is the job
of the Holy Spirit to enlighten the child
of God to the meaning
of Scripture, without Him, one is without the ability to interpret Scripture
We might recall that the frequently
used metaphor «the church
in the public square» derives from the historic presence
of real churches on real public squares.
This is going to be a shock — the men who actually wrote all the parts
in the Bible and made changes to the infrastructure of Christianity — including Constantine circa 300 AD in Rome — were not afraid of unleashing the occasional metaphor... in other words the Bible is not entirely literal — no, you are supposed to use your imagination... In many cases the disciples didn't actually witness an event — it was long distance and time altered hearsay — God figured Man could handle that... So don't be afraid to dilute - God's cool with that — as long as you do the right thing in life — feed the poor, help your neighbor, don't kill or covet - just be a good and decent person - smile, love and give generously... God doesn't need robots — He wants thoughtful individuals who help!
in the Bible and made changes to the infrastructure
of Christianity — including Constantine circa 300 AD
in Rome — were not afraid of unleashing the occasional metaphor... in other words the Bible is not entirely literal — no, you are supposed to use your imagination... In many cases the disciples didn't actually witness an event — it was long distance and time altered hearsay — God figured Man could handle that... So don't be afraid to dilute - God's cool with that — as long as you do the right thing in life — feed the poor, help your neighbor, don't kill or covet - just be a good and decent person - smile, love and give generously... God doesn't need robots — He wants thoughtful individuals who help!
in Rome — were not afraid
of unleashing the occasional
metaphor...
in other words the Bible is not entirely literal — no, you are supposed to use your imagination... In many cases the disciples didn't actually witness an event — it was long distance and time altered hearsay — God figured Man could handle that... So don't be afraid to dilute - God's cool with that — as long as you do the right thing in life — feed the poor, help your neighbor, don't kill or covet - just be a good and decent person - smile, love and give generously... God doesn't need robots — He wants thoughtful individuals who help!
in other words the Bible is not entirely literal — no, you are supposed to
use your imagination...
In many cases the disciples didn't actually witness an event — it was long distance and time altered hearsay — God figured Man could handle that... So don't be afraid to dilute - God's cool with that — as long as you do the right thing in life — feed the poor, help your neighbor, don't kill or covet - just be a good and decent person - smile, love and give generously... God doesn't need robots — He wants thoughtful individuals who help!
In many cases the disciples didn't actually witness an event — it was long distance and time altered hearsay — God figured Man could handle that... So don't be afraid to dilute - God's cool with that — as long as you do the right thing
in life — feed the poor, help your neighbor, don't kill or covet - just be a good and decent person - smile, love and give generously... God doesn't need robots — He wants thoughtful individuals who help!
in life — feed the poor, help your neighbor, don't kill or covet - just be a good and decent person - smile, love and give generously... God doesn't need robots — He wants thoughtful individuals who help!!!
But we need to note that the images and
metaphors that were
used in the modern revival
of concern for pastoral care, with which I am
in deep sympathy, have only recently become concerned about shepherding, and for a time were quite different
in character.
Rorty chides those who have forgotten Nietzsche's admonition that truth is nothing but «a mobile army
of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms —
in short a sum
of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically and which after long
use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people» (VPN 46 - 7).
In In Search
of Our Mothers» Gardens, Walker
uses her mother's gardens as a
metaphor for all that she has inherited from her mother, including artistic skill and a vision
of harmony.
This does not hinder our
use of the term «action»
in metaphor.
Many since Kant have doubted whether God, who gave us language, actually
uses language to communicate with uswhether, that is, God's «speaking» to people is a cognitive event for them as my speaking to you would be, or whether this «speaking» is a
metaphor for some non-cognitive way
in which we are made aware
of his presence.
DeSalvo points out the
metaphors of drowning that appear so often
in Woolf's writing —
metaphors frequently
used by victims
of incest.
In summary, Koko's creative use of language in humor, formation of new words, modulation of signs, understanding of metaphor, and self - directed signing provide evidence of both conscious perception and intuitive judgment
In summary, Koko's creative
use of language
in humor, formation of new words, modulation of signs, understanding of metaphor, and self - directed signing provide evidence of both conscious perception and intuitive judgment
in humor, formation
of new words, modulation
of signs, understanding
of metaphor, and self - directed signing provide evidence
of both conscious perception and intuitive judgments.
The New Testament
uses a number
of images and
metaphors, and never confines the meaning
of the cross
in a formal definition.
The Pythagorean traditions
of four kinds
of harmony: musical harmony the root
metaphor «Harmony» is a word now
used only
in metaphorical senses.1 In the long and complicated history of this word, which we can not here trace, the literal sense has been forgotte
in metaphorical senses.1
In the long and complicated history of this word, which we can not here trace, the literal sense has been forgotte
In the long and complicated history
of this word, which we can not here trace, the literal sense has been forgotten.
Rather, it is a model, which does not derive from images and reality.107 As part
of language,
metaphor is not only
used in a textual context, but also
in an oral context, providing a social context for both.
They thus came naturally to him to be
used as
metaphors in his parables proclaiming the Kingdom
of God, to an audience predominantly consisting
of peasants and others who belonged to the deprived and alienated social groups.40 The images from nature, therefore, become meaningful to an audience who were
in constant relationship with nature
in their daily activities on the farm, with its experience
of pathos and joy.
Or some hear the gospel as a metaphorical message about how to live a better life
in the here and now and view any talk
of after - lives, eternal damnation, and saving as only
metaphor that tends to get abused when it is
used to stir up fear
in order to get converts and tithing members.
Thus the process
of growth itself is a reversal
of the state
in which the mustard seed once was, and leading into the fulfillment
of a process.59 Such
use of metaphor, as that
of the mustard seed, «is truly revolutionary and unprecedented, for it seeks to reverse the hearer's normal expectation.
The indirect or «soft» quality
of incarnational communication is highlighted, by Christ's almost exclusive
use of parable, dialogue and
metaphor in his ministry.
Protestants have tended to
use metaphor because it connects dissimilar ideas and realities and therefore suits a Protestant preference for seeing the world
in terms
of contrast and dialectic.
The Darwinian
metaphor of evolution was
used to express a faith
in a Historical future,
in either the coming end
of History (Marx) or a more indefinite perfectibility
in which our alienating technological progress would finally be ennobled by a corresponding moral progress (say, John Stuart Mill or Walt Whitman) that would be the source
of the elusive human happiness promised by modern liberation.
Plutarch records «grind»
used as a sexual
metaphor in the last quarter
of the first century A.D., overlapping the probable years when Luke was composed.