"Language regularly falls short of giving adequate expression to theological realities, and the realm of theology where our language is most inadequate is eschatology, the doctrine of last things. Our language of bodies is all based on the physical features of this world. We know that the next world -not just our bodies, but all of creation -will be as different as the resurrected Christ was from the bruised body laid in the tomb."
Nancy Murphy in In Search of the Soul: Four Views on the Mind-Body Problem. edited by Joel B. Green and Stuart L. Palmer 2005, 188.
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2 comments:
I have been reading Vanhoozer, McKnight, and Gunton on the atonement this week, and they emphasize the same point about theological language being metaphorical. However, eschatological language more than Trinitarian langauge?
I think I could see Trinitarian language as also difficult since it is Other just as eschatology mostly involves other worldly terms. I really enjoyed reading some of Janet Martin Soskice on Metaphor and Religious Language.
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