Metaphor: The Indivisibility of Visible and Invisible
Posted By Foolish Sage on June 6, 2009
We live in an intricate web of relationships that comprises the visible and the invisible, and so we need words that at one and the same time designate what is immediate to us via our senses and also immediate to us by faith. Ours is the world of dirt and stone, roads and houses, lilies and leopards, Saturn and San Diego, cradles and coffins, and simultaeously the world of sin and forgiveness, patience and persistence, holiness and evil, faith, hope, and love, of which the greatest is love. These are not two worlds that co-exist; the two worlds are the same world. The two aspects are indivisible. Metaphor is language that in a single word conveys the indivisibility of visible and invisible, of seen and unseen, of heaven and earth.
Eugene Peterson, The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways that Jesus is the Way. (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2007) pp. 24-25.
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Mark Traphagen (aka Foolish Sage) is a lover of dark beers and darker music, of things that are but are not as they seem, of contexts taken out of context to become new contexts, of stories that point to a bigger Story. Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and works by day for
Y’know, Joe, that’s the problem with audio books (at least at my age). I generally only have time to listen to them in bed. I inevitably fall asleep, and then its the dickens to try to find out where you left off.
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hey Mark, great post. I think you’ve convinced me to pick this book up and read it…or at least buy the audio. to bad they didn’t do any of our required reading at school on audio. Even if that stuff put us to sleep, at least we wouldve slept better!
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