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hn's identification of Jesus with the Platonic and Stoic idea of the pre-existent "Word." 5 A more intentional religious humanism can be found in Augustine's use of the neo-Platonic Plotinus, especially in the philosophical psychology of remembrance developed in his Confessions . 6 But the most dram

the sentence meaning. Metaphor, irony, sarcasm, and other figures are generally thought of as being understood later in this process although in Gilpin's chapter the immediate power of these to affect us is quite clear. Emotion and attitudes are thought of as not understood until after the lingui

nd partly by the natural agent; rather, it is wholly done by both." For prominent examples of such a view in the history of Christian thought, see Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis, trans. John Hammond Taylor (New York: Newman Press, 1982), chapters 10-12, pp. 49-51; and Cyril of Alexandria, C

scribe what religion does in rigorous ways that benefit religion, and religion can serve a meaning-making function that science itself disclaims. Gilpin notes that rifts between science and religion "have centered on whether one can make scientific sense of the notion of divine mind, purpose, or i

of John’s identification of Jesus with the Platonic and Stoic idea of the pre-existent “Word.” A more intentional religious humanism can be found in Augustine’s use of the neo-Platonic Plotinus, especially in the philosophical psychology of remembrance developed in his Confessions.° But the most dramatic ex

ret the sentence meaning. Metaphor, irony, sarcasm, and other figures are generally thought of as being understood later in this process although in Gilpin’s chapter the immediate power of these to affect us is quite clear. Emotion and attitudes are thought of as not understood until after the linguistic

nd partly by the natural agent; rather, it is wholly done by both.” * For prominent examples of such a view in the history of Christian thought, see Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis, trans. John Hammond Taylor (New York: Newman Press, 1982), chapters 10-12, pp. 49-51; and Cyril of Alexandria, Comme

n describe what religion does in rigorous ways that benefit religion, and religion can serve a meaning-making function that science itself disclaims. Gilpin notes that rifts between science and religion “have centered on whether one can make scientific sense of the notion of divine 152 Page mind, purpo