Craig Allert, Early Christian Readings of Genesis One: Patristic Exegesis and Literal Interpretation

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-103
Author(s):  
Paul M. Blowers ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literal Interpretation ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Patristic Exegesis

Conceptual Blending with moral accounting Metaphors in Christian Exegesis

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-236
Author(s):  
Aleksander Gomola
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Conceptual Blending ◽  
Conceptual Integration ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Patristic Exegesis

The paper argues for the crucial role of conceptual blending in creating and developing of Christian doctrine. It assumes that typological patristic exegesis of the early Christian period, viewed through the lens of Conceptual Blending Theory, may be regarded as a series of conceptual integration processes, with typological blends as building blocks of Christian doctrine, including the doctrine of salvation. To prove this, the paper discusses selected Adam-Christ typological blends present in the writings of the early Christian authors, seeing in them linguistic realizations of moral accounting metaphor that underlies the doctrine of salvation and demonstrating in this way a key role of conceptual integration in shaping Christian doctrine.

Features of Christian-Theological Interpretation of the Concept of Personality

2007 ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
Yuliya Kostantynivna Nedzelska
Keyword(s):  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Individual

The concept of "personality" is multifaceted and multifaceted in its basis, and therefore, in science has always been a great difficulty in determining its essence and content. For example, in Antiquity, "personality" as such, dissolves in the concept of "society". There is no "human" yet, but there is a genus, a community, a people that are only quantitatively formed from the mass of different individuals, governed and subordinated to any one idea (custom, tribal or ethno-religious) espoused by this society. In other words, in such societies, the individual was not unique and unique; his personality (we understand - personality) was limited to the general, the collective. This is confirmed by the Jewish and early Christian texts.

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