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.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

Language does our thinking for us.

The universe would appear to be something like a piece of cheese; it can be sliced in an infinite number of ways- and when one has chosen his own pattern of slicing, he finds that other men's cuts fall at the wrong places.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

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.