Conceptual Blending in Early Christian Discourse: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Pastoral Metaphors in Patristic Literature

Aleksander Gomola

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Conceptual Blending in Early Christian Discourse

A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Pastoral Metaphors in Patristic Literature

Aleksander Gomola
Aleksander Gomola

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Cognitive linguists and biblical and patristic scholars have recently given more attention to the presence of conceptual blends in early Christian texts, yet there has been so far no comprehensive study of the general role of conceptual blending as a generator of novel meanings in early Christianity as a religious system with its own identity. This monograph points in that direction and is a cognitive linguistic exploration of pastoral metaphors in a wide range of patristic texts, presenting them as variants of THE CHURCH IS A FLOCK network.

Such metaphors or blends, rooted in the Bible, were used by Patristic writers to conceptualize a great number of particular notions that were constitutive for the early church, including the responsibilities of the clergy and the laity, morality and penance, church unity, baptism and soteriology. This study shows how these blends became indispensable building blocks of a new religious system and explains the role of conceptual blending in this process. The book is addressed to biblical and patristic scholars interested in a new, unifying perspective for various strands of early Christian thought and to cognitive linguists interested in the role of conceptual integration in religious language.

Produced with the support of the Faculty of Philology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

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Aleksander Gomola, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland.

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"Eine nicht nur im englischen Sprachraum beachtenswerte Studie."
Notker Baumann in: Theologische Revue 115.6 (2019), 52

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	X
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The aim and theoretical framework of this monograph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
2. Conceptual blending in biblical exegesis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3. The cultural background of the image of the church as a flock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
4. A taxonomy of blends which constitute the image of the church as a flock in early Christian discourse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
5. THE FLOCK OF THE CHURCH IS THE FLOCK OF ISRAEL (FCFI) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
6. SHEPHERDS ARE THE SHEPHERD (SAS) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
7. The THE CHURCH IS GOD’S FLOCK (CGF) blend in the New Testament and shepherding imagery in The Shepherd of Hermas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
8. The CGF blend as a conceptual instrument in early church life and practice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
9. The THE CHURCH IS GOD’S FLOCK blend as a conceptual instrument in early church liturgy and theology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Index of Ancient and Medieval Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
Index of Biblical Sources and Pseudepigrapha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228