University Press of America
Pages: 228
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Trim: 5¾ x 8¾
978-0-8191-7886-2 • Hardback • October 1990 • $109.00 • (£84.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
978-0-8191-7887-9 • Paperback • September 1990 • $65.99 • (£51.00)
Jay G. Williams is Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religion at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York.
...a colourful platter of savoury hors d'oeuvres. The author's own writings are combined with carefully selected texts...and they invite the reader to explore the human enigma.
— Nikky Singh, Colby College
This is, as one would expect from Jay Williams, a book as profound as it is unusual. It does not merely tell the reader about the metaphorical nature of religious language; it forces him or her to experience it, to be caught in verbal mazes from whichthere is no way out save by recognizing that, like carriages turning into pumpkins and horses into mice, words can turn into other things: wordless experiences, black holes and escape hatches. Read it (if you dare) and you won't think about words or religion in quite the same way again.
— Robert Ellwood, University of Southern California
This is, as one would expect from Jay Williams, a book as profound as it is unusual. It does not merely tell the reader about the metaphorical nature of religious language; it forces him or her to experience it, to be caught in verbal mazes from which there is no way out save by recognizing that, like carriages turning into pumpkins and horses into mice, words can turn into other things: wordless experiences, black holes and escape hatches. Read it (if you dare) and you won't think about words or religion in quite the same way again.
— Robert Ellwood, University of Southern California
...a colourful platter of savoury hors d'oeuvres. The author's own writings are combined with carefully selected texts...and they invite the reader to explore the human enigma.
— Nikky Singh, Colby College