TAGS: – Christianity; – Religion; - Concepts, Religious; - Metaphors and allegories; - Symbolism; Ephrem; Mariner; Mystery (mysteries); Ontology; Phenomenology; Robes; Theology

Abstract:

Comparison of doctrinal metaphors found in Christianity and the Bahá'í Faith through the lens of Saint Ephrem, the greatest poet of the era; this pairing of metaphors with doctrinal concepts is a theological contribution to the phenomenology of religion.

Notes:

Mirrored from academia.edu.

Comparison and Transposition of Metaphors in Bahá'í and Syriac Christian Conceptual Systems

Christopher Buck

1992

Download: buck_metaphors_bahai_christian.pdf.

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