The Impassibility of God Reconsidered (original) (raw)
The Bible writers employ conceptual metaphors that utilise human relationships involving emotions (the source domain) to describe the nature of God (the target domain). Modern conceptual metaphor theory maintains that although such metaphors have a discontinuity in that not all concepts contained in the source domain are transferred to their intended target domain, they nonetheless illustrate a truth. Based on that understanding this paper looks to challenge the classical view of the impassibility of God.
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