Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

Language does our thinking for us.