RT Article
T1 Sacrifice, Metaphor, and Evolution: Towards a Cognitive Linguistic Theology of Sacrifice
JF Open theology
VO 4
IS 1
SP 1
OP 14
A1 Schlesinger, Eugene R.
LA English
PB De Gruyter
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1830002600
AB This article lays the groundwork for articulating a Christian theology of sacrifice within the framework of cognitive linguistics. I demonstrate the affinity and potential for mutual enrichment between three disparate fields of discourse. Beginning with Jonathan Klawans’s methodological proposals for understanding sacrifice as a meaningful phenomenon for those who engage(d) in it, I suggest that the double-scope conceptual blending described by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner provides a helpful resource for Klawans to clarify his thought and answer objections to his proposals. Fauconnier and Turner’s account of double-scope blends is set within an evolutionary account of human development and is the condition of possibility for language, art, science, and religion. I then put Fauconnier and Turner into dialogue with Sarah Coakley’s recent attempts to locate sacrifice within the evolutionary spectrum, and suggest that they provide a more helpful theory of language than Chomsky’s purely formal account.
K1 Cognitive Linguistics
K1 Evolution
K1 Fauconnier and Turner
K1 Jonathan Klawans
K1 Metaphor
K1 Sacrifice
K1 Sarah Coakley
DO 10.1515/opth-2018-0001