The nature of religious language : a colloquium / edited by Stanley E. Porter. - Sheffield, UK : Sheffield Academic, 1996. - 315 p. ; pbk ; 23 cm. - Roehampton Institute London papers ; .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Theology.
Problems in the language of the Bible / Stanley E. Porter --
The historical Jesus and the deified Christ / Craig A. Evans --
Translating the Bible / David Daniell --
Voice genres : the case of televangelical language / John O. Thompson --
Charismatic mysticism : a sociological analysis of the 'Toronto blessing' / Philip Richter --
Postmodernism, a/theology, and the possiblity of language as universal eucharist / J. Stephen Fountain --
God and language : a feminist perspective on the meaning of 'god' / Beverley Clack --
Invisible women : gender and the exclusive language debate / Linda Thomas --
From performativity to pedagogy : Jean Ladrière and the pragmatics of Reformed worship discourse / David Hilborn --
Analogy : Aquinas and Pannenberg / Michael Nevin -- Pt. 2. Literature.
Living powers : sacred and secular language in European Romanticism / David Jasper --
In the belly of the whale : the rise and fall of religious language in the early modern period / Gerald Hammond --
Conceits of mind, conceits of body : Dionys Fitzherbert and the discourses of religion and madness / Katharine Hodgkin --
'Speaking to God in his phrase and word' : women's use of the Psalms in early modern England / Suzanne Trill --
Religious persuasion and the language of poetry / Pat Pinsent --
Expressing the inexpressible : religious language and the unholy / Kevin McCarron.

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Language and languages--Religious aspects--Christianity--Congresses.
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