P. Sufenas Virius Lupus
Not unlike poetry and fiction themselves, theology is a hotbed of metaphor creation, and your last example there is a prime illustration of such! It'...
Anomalous Thracian
It is *at least* six different things, I agree! I tried my best at differentiating (untangling!) at least some of them here in this piece, and hopeful...
P. Sufenas Virius Lupus
Quite, indeed!That multiplicity is what made my post on this matter so convoluted and scattered, I think--we're actually discussing about six things, ...
Anomalous Thracian
Thank you, Dver I tried to be very purposeful with my choice of language here, so as to not diminish anything in the realms of writing/fiction (as th...
Anomalous Thracian
Thanks! Although I wouldn't say that you communicated anything less -- just different angles. This particular topic is, I think, unique in both its lu...
P. Sufenas Virius Lupus
I could not agree more, and could not have said it better (indeed, my own attempts to say much of what you've communicated here was quite considerably...