a colloquium Porter, Stanley E. 1956- ed. text Sheffield, UK Sheffield Academic 1996 monographic 315 p. ; pbk ; 23 cm. 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. edited by Stanley E. Porter. Includes bibliographical references and index. Language and languages Religious aspects Christianity Congresses Christianity and Literature Congresses 210/.14/NAT 0850757836 (pbk) 020507 20130919160803.0 309595539553