Pauline Hamartiology: Conceptualisation and Transferences

Positioning Cognitive Semantic Theory and Method within Theology

by Steffi Fabricius

Book cover: Pauline Hamartiology: Conceptualisation and Transferences

Extent: 312 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Biblical Studies, Language & Linguistics

Series: Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie

Series volume number: 74

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2018)

ISBN: 9783161566219

Price: $162.00

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Steffi Fabricius approaches Pauline hamartiology from a cognitive semantic perspective and combines the conventional views on Paul’s understanding of hamartia as an action, a personification, and as a power into a conceptual metaphorical network. By using the theories of conceptual metaphors and blending on biblical texts and their hermeneutical interpretation regarding fundamental-theological issues, a discussion is opened on why traditional methods are insufficient to cover hamartia extensively. The author not only reveals a revised concept of Pauline hamartia, but more importantly aims at a theological evaluation of cognitive semantics and its ontological foundation of embodied realism via relational ontology and the concept of metaphor as transfer, hoping to broaden the interdisciplinary discourse between systematic theology and cognitive linguistics.

  • By (author) Steffi Fabricius