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Relationship Triad: Session 2
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box, The Arbinger Institute Session 2 Before You Meet I. Meditate 3-5 times on Romans 7:15-25 this week. Start with prayer for yourself and for others reading the same verse, that the same Spirit that inspired these words would open your heart and mind to them as well. Then […]
Night Vision Goggles and Blended Spaces
One of my favorite Super Bowl ads is also a good example not only of metaphor theory in advertising, but of a phenomenon called “mental space blending.” Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner developed the theory of cognitive blending in their book The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities. For my money, I prefer […]
Smoking Kills (Don’t Be an Idiot!)
Metaphor works by mapping narrative inference structure from one domain of knowledge or experience to another. This kind of cross-domain mapping can of course be accomplished through words, but because metaphor is primarily a function of thought rather than language, we should expect to find the dynamics of metaphor not only in the things we […]
Basic Metaphor Theory
Metaphor theory has exploded since the early 1970’s, making it both an exciting and frustrating field of study, since different theorists rarely use the same technical terms or definitions. (For a [very] detailed overview of a variety of approaches to metaphor, see the Appendix to my dissertation, available here: Describing the Duality of Metaphor. Manufacturer’s Warning: […]
The Tri-Cycle of Sin, Judgment, and Grace
Sin, Judgment, and Grace You know the story. It is appropriately labeled, “The Fall.” Eve listens to the tempter’s voice. Adam stands by without trying to stop her and joins in sin. Death becomes inevitable. The harmony is broken. Nothing is the way it should be anymore. And so begins a cycle we see again […]
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