The Power of Biblical Metaphors for the Contextualized Communication of the Gospel

Ott, Craig

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“…Minear, 1960: 24; cf. Ott, 2013: 3). African Catholic bishops at their 1994 Synod, for example, identified the image of family as their primary model of church as it resonated with African values.…”

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Diagnosing church health across cultures: A case study of Turkish Roma (Millet) churches in Bulgaria

Hibbert

Hibbert²

2016

Missiology

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Diagnosing church health across cultures: A case study of Turkish Roma (Millet) churches in Bulgaria

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2016

Missiology

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“…The ever-widening pool of theory from which missiology draws can be seen in specific research projects. For example, Ott’s (2014) recent article on biblical metaphors drew on (among others) biblical studies of atonement and ecclesiology, as well as the use of metaphor in higher education, the role of ontology in architecture, the use of symbol and ritual in culture, and the role of language and translation. Two recent studies published in The Great Commission Research Journal (Casey, 2012; Huizing, 2012) relied on ecclesiology and theology as well as concepts from the field of qualitative research methodology.…”

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Does missiology have three legs to stand on? The upsurge of interdisciplinarity

Nehrbass

2015

Missiology

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A common heuristic device for depicting the interdisciplinary nature of missiology is the metaphor of a stool that stands on three legs (or academic disciplines). However, missiologists have disagreed on exactly which disciplines comprise those legs. That theology is central is hardly contested; but there is less agreement about the role of the social sciences, history, education, mission strategy, and so forth. Here, I argue that we should move beyond the three-legged stool metaphor, as it fails to describe the true interdisciplinary nature of missiology: The academic influences on missiology are more numerous than the stool metaphor allows for; the borders between these disciplines are fuzzy and changing; and the influence of academic theories on mission strategy is not merely one-way. In quest of a more satisfactory metaphor, I begin by suggesting a definition of missiology as the utilization of multiple academic disciplines to develop strategies for making disciples across cultures. Drawing on that definition, I develop the image of missiology as a river with countless tributaries (theoretical disciplines) that converge for this common goal. Since scholars of Christian mission cannot be experts in many fields, we must be intentional with the sort of interdisciplinarity that is most useful for designing effective mission strategies.

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The concept of “the Lamb of God” («ὁ ἀµνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ») in English, German and Russian translations of the Gospel of John

Kazantsev

2023

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The interpretation of biblical concepts is a complex translation problem, the method of literal translation cannot solve it. The search for lexical matches in the target language is not always systematic. A comprehensive solution to this problem is possible within the framework of the conceptual theory of metaphor, which allows you to rethink the process of translating biblical concepts. The article explores the implementation of the concept «the Lamb of God» («ὁ ἀµνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ») in the translations of the Gospel of John into English, German and Russian in the light of modern research on the conceptual theory of metaphor. The purpose of the study is to analyze the degree of implementation of the concept «the Lamb of God» («ὁ ἀµνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ») in translations of the Gospel of John. The work uses the MIPVU method to identify metaphors in the original text of the Gospel of John, as well as methods of analysis and synthesis to assess the adequacy of the translation of the concept « the Lamb of God» in the context of the biblical conceptual field. As a result of the study, it was revealed that in the English, German and Russian translations of the Gospel of John, the concept of the «the Lamb of God» («ὁ ἀμνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ») of the original text is not fully implemented. The absence of a separate lexical unit leads to confusion in the translations of the «Lamb» («ἀμνὸς») from the Gospel of John and the «Lamb» («ἀρνίον») from the Apocalypse, which distorts the meaning of the translations. The application of the MIPVU method to identify metaphors in the biblical text, as well as an integrated approach to the translation of biblical concepts, is a developing direction in modern translation studies. Modern advances in the field of metaphor theory make it possible to create new translations of the Bible that are accessible to readers who are not familiar with the biblical conceptual field.

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The Power of Biblical Metaphors for the Contextualized Communication of the Gospel

Cited by 3 publications

References 22 publications

Diagnosing church health across cultures: A case study of Turkish Roma (Millet) churches in Bulgaria

Diagnosing church health across cultures: A case study of Turkish Roma (Millet) churches in Bulgaria

Does missiology have three legs to stand on? The upsurge of interdisciplinarity

The concept of “the Lamb of God” («ὁ ἀµνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ») in English, German and Russian translations of the Gospel of John

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