The politics of divine power
<p>This thesis argues that our political outlook, in particular our ideas about political authority, can influence our concept of God and how we view the nature of divine sovereignty. It highlights the role of metaphorical language in this association, and uses the insights of contemporary cog...
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| description | <p>This thesis argues that our political outlook, in particular our ideas about political authority, can influence our concept of God and how we view the nature of divine sovereignty. It highlights the role of metaphorical language in this association, and uses the insights of contemporary cognitive linguistics research to propose a mechanism to underpin a threefold connection between a person’s moral worldview, their political worldview, and their concept of God.</p>
<p>Through the window of their differing political viewpoints, the main chapters assess the doctrines of God developed by Hans Urs von Balthasar in his concept of glory in Glory of the Lord; by John D. Caputo in his concept of the weakness of God; and by Jürgen Moltmann through his theologies of creation, eschatology, and the Trinity. With these theologians to illustrate the arguments, the guiding question is to ask how we can better understand how political worldviews are operating in the formulations of doctrines of God. The analysis of the three theologians reveals that metaphorical language plays an active role. Recent developments in cognitive linguistics, specifically cognitive metaphor theories, are discussed and employed to deepen our understanding of the role being played by figurative language and metaphorical thought processes. Through consideration of the metaphor ‘God is Father’, we apply and extend Moral Politics Theory – itself an application of conceptual metaphor theory – to demonstrate a mechanism to link a person’s moral worldview, political worldview, and their concept of God. We then return to von Balthasar, Caputo, and Moltmann to apply these insights, to better understand how their political (and moral) worldview influences the development of their doctrine of God. The thesis concludes with a discussion of some implications of cognitive linguistics research for theology.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:ee3378a9-250d-42f9-aa17-8ecb80a1fc872022-08-25T15:33:24ZThe politics of divine powerThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:ee3378a9-250d-42f9-aa17-8ecb80a1fc87TheologyEnglishHyrax Deposit2022Bridge, SWard, GChapman, MZachhuber, JScott, P<p>This thesis argues that our political outlook, in particular our ideas about political authority, can influence our concept of God and how we view the nature of divine sovereignty. It highlights the role of metaphorical language in this association, and uses the insights of contemporary cognitive linguistics research to propose a mechanism to underpin a threefold connection between a person’s moral worldview, their political worldview, and their concept of God.</p> <p>Through the window of their differing political viewpoints, the main chapters assess the doctrines of God developed by Hans Urs von Balthasar in his concept of glory in Glory of the Lord; by John D. Caputo in his concept of the weakness of God; and by Jürgen Moltmann through his theologies of creation, eschatology, and the Trinity. With these theologians to illustrate the arguments, the guiding question is to ask how we can better understand how political worldviews are operating in the formulations of doctrines of God. The analysis of the three theologians reveals that metaphorical language plays an active role. Recent developments in cognitive linguistics, specifically cognitive metaphor theories, are discussed and employed to deepen our understanding of the role being played by figurative language and metaphorical thought processes. Through consideration of the metaphor ‘God is Father’, we apply and extend Moral Politics Theory – itself an application of conceptual metaphor theory – to demonstrate a mechanism to link a person’s moral worldview, political worldview, and their concept of God. We then return to von Balthasar, Caputo, and Moltmann to apply these insights, to better understand how their political (and moral) worldview influences the development of their doctrine of God. The thesis concludes with a discussion of some implications of cognitive linguistics research for theology.</p> |
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